Google actively shooting themselves in the foot. Why would I choose an Android phone over an iPhone if Google continues to remove features and user freedoms that set it apart from apple's "walled garden"

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If Android and iOS are on par in terms of locked down software, I'd probably go back to an iPhone. Not before desperately trying to find a feasible alternative to the duopoly though

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 20 points 2 months ago

I'm really hoping more adoption of Ubuntu Touch and other alternative mobile OSs will come from this, and with that, more support and development to make them feasible alternatives for the average user

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

This is actually why I ended up switching a couple years ago. I started when Android was balls-to-the-wall customization and there were tons of custom ROMs. You could theme all of Material UI and my phone looked nothing like when I first got it. By the time I left, you could get like one of 5 very expensive phones that had unlocked bootloaders and even those had very few ROMs.

Even with the custom ROMs, the joy was dead. You couldn’t wildly theme everything from the boot logo to the lock screen to the notification bar. It had been boiled down to pretty much the same set of customizations as the iPhone and the iPhone was more reliable. I didn’t want to switch, necessarily, but for my use cases as least, it just ended up being the easier choice.

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately 99.9999999999999999999% of Android users don't care and won't even notice this happen

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

99.999999% if Lemmy users hate iPhone but think Android is safe. The other 0.000001% use a Linux phone.

[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm willing to switch to Linux Phones if Waydroid works reasonably well

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use Waydroid on desktop and it works well.

[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I know. I wonder it works well on my $40 Pixel 3a as well