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  • BaroqueInMind@piefed.socialEnglish
    2311·
    1 day ago

    If android blocks direct-installing “sideloading”, I will move to Apple and never look the fuck back. This is pure greed and hubris that Google thinks they have the market cornered. They all can go cuck themselves.

    • spacelord@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      61·
      15 hours ago

      Would you look at that… All of us struggling what to do, where to go, and replacing Google with Apple was the “solution” all along 🙄

      • Mark with a Z@suppo.fiEnglish
        9·
        23 hours ago

        I mean, obviously apple was like that since the first iphone, but if it’s all walled gardens, nothing matters anymore. Well, maybe I’d try a linux phone first.

        • Ferk@lemmy.mlEnglish
          6·
          10 hours ago

          The thing is that Apple is even worse when it comes to its walled garden practices and locked-in bundled software. For example, in Android you can at least choose amongst alternative apps for SMS, etc. And some are even open source, and available in the official store. But in Apple devices you can’t compete with iMessage, by policy. It’s simply not allowed. Even from a technical standpoint it’s not possible either, since they don’t even offer an API for a third party iOS app to handle SMS/MMS/RCS. And that’s just 1 example.

          So you are jumping from the pan to the fire if you go from Android to iOS. Even if you are ok giving up the “sideloading” aspect, you are still worse off with Apple anyway.

        • Matt@lemdro.idEnglish
          7·
          18 hours ago

          If it has Google Play Services, it will be affected. Custom ROMs like Graphene OS and Lineage will keep working. The problem is if app developers and/or most of their users don’t use a custom ROM, it will likely push them out of Android app development. So while it is possible for some users to avoid direct impacts of this change, the overall fallout will be unavoidable.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      10·
      21 hours ago

      Best thing to do is just stop buying new phones. Play Services and apps will still work and receive updates for years. Swap that old battery and keep chugging for a few years.

      Starving all the tech brah corpos of money is the only message we plebs have the power to send. Bouncing to their competitor in a duopoly isn’t actually “showing them” anything.

      • triptrapper@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        18 hours ago

        I don’t know how any of this works. What’s stopping Google from doing the same thing to old phones?

    • Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      112·
      1 day ago

      If they start doing X I will go somewhere where they have been doing X for a long time! That’ll show them!

      • BaroqueInMind@piefed.socialEnglish
        8·
        23 hours ago

        My logic is that if no one allows direct install of apps, I might as well move to a more secure walled garden than the dogshit security posture Android has.

        • Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          12 hours ago

          It’s interesting to me that there is no thought at all to move to “neither”. Of course, that is what they count on, people not willing to give something so perceived important up.

          I recently lost my phone for a few days. Until I found it, it was annoying, but life still worked. Of course, it’s a major drop in convenience, no doubt, but I would’ve likely been fine without either Android or iPhone.