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Agreed, but is a chicken and egg problem. People won't use Linux because the apps they want don't support it and apps won't support it because most people don't use Linux. Someone will have to cave in if we want to break this stupid proprietary duopoly.

I used to run an LTE-enabled nettop instead of a phone during the app-only craze, can't get any worse than that. Recently removed bank apps, taxi, delivery, maps, youtube, email and all social media apps off my phone in favour of using websites instead. They're still a bit of an afterthought compared to apps so the experience is a bit clunky, but the option is available for most things nowadays.

Don't they have functioning Android app support now?

Most of this i don't use my phone for anyway. I'll use my current android phone for the rest, if needed.

Still going to wait and see if the Eu makes a move, but i won't go back to fascist enabling corps.

From the security standpoint and the patching standpoint, you are 100% straight on accurate.

Unfortunately, Apple Microsoft and Google all sell ads. They are also all working on training AI with your data.

The upside is, as far as ad companies go, they're not just handing over the data that "bleachedbluejeans23@apple.com likes red squirrels to be vendors" They sell client code where the client pulls the ads directly from apple's platform.

They're all collecting dossiers on you. They have all identified you and their systems with whatever emails, payment cards, what have you that you use on their systems. And they have a database with all of your intimate desires and wishes and wants and how much money you make.

When Google started doing this, they threw up the don't be evil banner. You can't just give all this information to a company and then trust them not to use it forever.

Both Tim and Pinchai paid Donald Trump money to attend his inauguration and lick his ass on a daily basis. They both have one very big incentive to invade their user's privacy: American fascism.

Apple: Has incentives to patch and update older phones (recurring revenues from AppStore and iCloud), and doesn’t really sell any ads themselves.

Don't fall for Apple PR, they sell you out like everyone else does: https://ads.apple.com/

Alternatively, get your mother an android phone and chuck /e/OS on it and tell her it's an iPhone. She won't know.

Linux Phone with waydroid is the way

It's like "jaywalking" oooh oh no don't "jay" walk, don't "side" load; conform to our business machines! Your natural existence and free movements are an inconvenience to us therefore you have to change.

Or whatever bullshit--however they couch it.

"Warning: If you unlock your phone, it might explode or you might become a terrorist. Also we won't pay your money back even if there is faulty hardware because there is non zero chance you might have caused it while unlocking"

Yea, who are google and apple to tell us what to do with OUR devices that WE OWN anyways?

I will never buy a smartphone(or a computer) that I can't replace the stock OS on, because the transaction for me and the device maker should end when I buy their device, period.

The entire business model of selling me a device only to then extract the maximum possible amount of data points, sell that data to fuck-knows-who(compromising my privacy, and possibly safety), and maximizing targeted ads to attempt to manipulate me is beyond absurd.

They can upload their ID to google, pay $25 USD, and then sign their apps using their own signing key which was pre-approved by Google.

Its the same for apple, but I think their fees are like $99 per year.

There are also reports of Google potentially leaving in a ADB bypass for it.

"Sideloading" means "defeating a walled garden to install software"

It won't affect you in any way directly. The issue is it very well may affect what apps are available and regularly updated on Fdroid and other app stores or repos.

Installing non-approved apps on custom roms will still work.