ashneo76

To everyone looking for alternatives, there are quite a few but strong alternatives. They are on a spectrum of complexity/privacy/convenience.

Android probably is not much different. But and this a big one, android devices are not tied to the host google OS and are waaaay way more open than Apple. This is because of Apple's ir tight grip on their hardware ecosystem and lobbying against right to repair. Also, the abundance of android phone makers means you get features at a variety of price points.

The OS options are LineageOS (my daily driver), CalyxOS worth more google support, microG lineage.

More different OS are Ubuntu touch (very active), postmarket OS with multiple frontends just like on Linux desktop, Manjaro Mobile, etc.

And hardware wise, there is Pine phone and Purism. But the more people paying for these, the more there is money for the competition.

Apple id already sitting on a staggering $200billion dollars. $200 billion.

Android devices are much more open than iOS devices. There are quite a few alternative OSs with much more privacy than Google and Apple

Unlike Apple, Android devices are not vendor locked into just one OS.

"regrets" :eye-roll: bunch of lying thieves sitting on $200billions of cold hard cash.

Manufactured obsolescence, walled gardens in the name of "user security", on and on.

No, no. You are not holding the phone right. It's not me, it's you. Apple is the epitome of gaslighting.

We need more people using Linux on desktop and pouring money into the Linux phone to justify these.

Voting with your wallet matters and works. It is why apple and Google still do so much marketing and hype about their phones and devices.

More monitoring of the normal citizen

Pretty soon housing your own infra and not using the mandated govt phone could be made a crime.

But think of the children and security of the society. Couple that with constant monitoring of your car and you can be monitored anywhere

The amount global electronics waste the disablement of 2G and 3G is going to be astonishing. 15 years of perfectly working devices, rendered useless.

And no 5G is not a replacement. I can manage perfectly fine doing remote work with hangouts/zoom calls on 4G when needed and jumping to 3G/2G for calls and text. If you need security then you can jump on internet.

The 2G/3G spectrum is not open for amateur development.

5G is just for pushing more data faster down people's throats.

The only got feature out of 5G will be open RAN.

Another form of manufactured obsolescence.

How many of those who are saying that this is for the greater good could be bothered to call up and fight for local fiber. Comcast and ATT spend billions in a town and stall that and that ad campaign gets you side tracked.

Your inabilities at distinguishing the fake from truth shouldn't take away the night sky from all of us.

Go fight the big companies instead of sitting here and talking. Start a local WISP.

Stop waiting for the billionaires to save you.

This is exactly how the rich stay rich. By dividing us and preying on the natural resources.

Nobody goes and fights BSNL in India or the local telecoms in Philippines to establish better wireless links.

This is basically moving the goalposts from one duopoly to another one soon.

For those that haven't seen the sky, go take a trip to natural park. This is akin to saying, I don't use sea water because it is salty. Let some company mine to for oil, because it is for the "greater good"

Nobody should be apologizing for a company. Companies as is cause as much harm as possible. We need better regulation to put checks in these comments and rich ass billionaires who think the world is their toy.

And just like that I get to be the authority on when I am tracked or not. Google is unethical in how it goes and hides it and papers over it.

Yes it is when they go around marketing that they are the best social network out there

It is when a billionaire and a company of chosen few can weild so much power over people everywhere

Looks like anything anti-ccp is getting downvoted to hell.

I just want the whole XP UI back. I can stand this new whatever it is

Yes. It is.