• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      when over half of the bug fixes and security patches come from Google, it’s a Google product.

      and I’m saying that as an android user from /e/OS

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        4 months ago

        Thats a google product but google apps and android are two diffrent product or atleast should be

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          4 months ago

          Should be but at this point basically aren’t.

          You can’t run AOSP on most phones and if you could you wouldn’t get the user experience most people expect from a phone.

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        4 months ago

        I myself have degoogled android device without bootloader locked. I have multiple devices with stock and custom ROM. With adb or other GUI tools you can go 95% degoogled without causing any breakage

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            4 months ago

            Situation on mobile devices is worse than people think. These vendors are locking devices more everyday. We seriously need more than 2 mobile OS. Linux phone’s future is still unclear

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        Maybe it’s my preference of using older mid-range devices but unlocking the bootloader has been fine, the problem is some banking apps and inferior hardware drivers (worse wireless performance, stretched camera image, no control of flashlight brightness etc.)