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Buying an Android phone is no longer enough — Google wants you to subscribe too
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Yes, but I'd expect an Android fork that still runs APKs to be the next move. I think it'll take quite a while to get every random bank and streaming app on there.
It's possible ... but somehow I just don't have a lot of faith in the open source community to actually make things that appeal to the broader user world. The things that tech types value (summarizable, albeit very coarsely, as a single word: control) are not what the average end users value (summarizable, again very coarsely, as a single word: convenience).
For instance I run Linux at home now because I'm doing "elbows up" and I don't want Microsoft's crappy AI-jammed-into-my-every-orifice bullshit. But the only reason I can do that is because my SO is a techie so I have someone there for when, not if, Linux decides that it hates its users and does something incomprehensible. (So far chiefly around audio.)
If I had a non-technical SO I would not be able to make that switch from Microsoft ... because what I value ("getting my shit done instead of someone else's") is at loggerheads with what Linux offers ("know every little detail of every little nook and cranny of your system with text that bears an astonishing resemblance to old-timey modem text over noisy lines").