This is not going to change anything. Google decided to become a bully and they’ll succeed.
It’s all a result of hardware manufacturers not bothering to create a common open source Android fork and keep giving more power to Google. Now even Samsung cannot operate their App Store without every single app in their store signed by Google.
As a fellow postmarketOS user, it’s not fully ready for prime time, though it surely works.
If you need banking apps (not just bank in your browser), native popular messenger apps (Waydroid is there, but it’s way from perfect) and stuff like such, postmarketOS and mobile Linux in general are still not ready for you.
If you want to explore the alternative and ready to make some sacrifices in a quest for independence, you should absolutely give it a spin. Many well-supported devices (Pixel 3a, Pocophone F1 etc. etc.) are old and extremely cheap to buy on the secondhand market, and will offer you a decent experience.
Reporting from el cheapo, Pixel 3a: calls work flawlessly, had a little tinkering to make cellular Internet connection work with my provider. Looking at PostmarketOS Wiki, plenty of phones now work perfectly well as, well, phones.
It’ll be interesting to see how this turns out long term. Google absolutely will abuse this and consumers and regulators will catch on eventually. It might take some years, but the EU might step in when things get too lopsided.
The EU is far more concerned with forcing age verification into everything. Only allowing apps from approved stores helps them do that so I doubt they’re against this
This is not going to change anything. Google decided to become a bully and they’ll succeed.
It’s all a result of hardware manufacturers not bothering to create a common open source Android fork and keep giving more power to Google. Now even Samsung cannot operate their App Store without every single app in their store signed by Google.
How about we forget about Android and start using postmarketOS instead?
As a fellow postmarketOS user, it’s not fully ready for prime time, though it surely works.
If you need banking apps (not just bank in your browser), native popular messenger apps (Waydroid is there, but it’s way from perfect) and stuff like such, postmarketOS and mobile Linux in general are still not ready for you.
If you want to explore the alternative and ready to make some sacrifices in a quest for independence, you should absolutely give it a spin. Many well-supported devices (Pixel 3a, Pocophone F1 etc. etc.) are old and extremely cheap to buy on the secondhand market, and will offer you a decent experience.
Tried it. Except for a couple of fairphones, you really can’t use your phone even to make basic calls, etc.
Reporting from el cheapo, Pixel 3a: calls work flawlessly, had a little tinkering to make cellular Internet connection work with my provider. Looking at PostmarketOS Wiki, plenty of phones now work perfectly well as, well, phones.
It’ll be interesting to see how this turns out long term. Google absolutely will abuse this and consumers and regulators will catch on eventually. It might take some years, but the EU might step in when things get too lopsided.
The EU is far more concerned with forcing age verification into everything. Only allowing apps from approved stores helps them do that so I doubt they’re against this
EU politicans like van der Leyen are terrified of Trump, and do not have the backbone to stand up to American corporations.
No, they just don’t want to, they’re playing for the same team.
Google just has to keep it below the threshold of annoying ordinary people