‘Time for Linux phones’: Android protests against major Google app change in September grow as developers warn ‘your phone is about to stop being yours’
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Android is about to become less open, and users aren't happy.
  • Denixen@feddit.nuEnglish
    172·
    5 days ago

    The problem is that the most important apps for users aren’t on those platforms. Bank apps and identification apps. They need to make apps for those platforms first otherwise a switch makes no sense.

    Also I have tried Ubuntu touch and it’s a nightmare and dysfunctional. e_OS however works great.

    • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
      8·
      5 days ago

      Exactly, consumer choice only works as a force in a functional market. Phone OSs are very much not a functional market. This requires regulators to wake up.

    • sumitonaranja@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      5 days ago

      agree, see also official government apps, like medical apps, post office, public transport, etc. i live in europe and those are usually necessary.

      • Denixen@feddit.nuEnglish
        1·
        15 hours ago

        You are right, they have the most important banking apps for my home country. However, I wonder if you still have to install them via google play store API, like in /e/OS?

        Edit: yepp, it is installed via google API and require spoofing the google certificate. This is as they write not a sustainable long term solution, as this could break at any time. Graphene themselves say that the only solution long term is to get governments to develop apps for graphene diectly.