I feel like this is the new normal cycle of every software company. Once they become a leader, it’s never enough. It replicates the rise of billionaires. Just as the billionaires being rich beyond anything they and all of their succeeding generations could ever spend is not enough, being the industry leader and producing an amazing product that people want is somehow not enough. It always turns to control and power.

The year of the Linux mobile is coming.

https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1/

I’m bothered that big companies, especially tech right now, no longer see their customers as people they need to please to stay in business, but instead as something they’ll inconvenience and squeeze as much as they can possibly get away with.

They all got to where they are making, at one point, amazing products. Now? Fuck making windows useful, we can throw ads and AI at you every place we can think of. Fuck all of the parts of Android that made it stand out, we tell you what to install. You don’t want all of your data scraped and sold? Fuck you, there’s 3 of us and we’re all doing it. In fact we’ll never stop finding new ways to harvest data.

Phones have basically stagnated entirely in the US. Sure you get moderately better chipsets, but what else? AI? I haven’t had a phone struggle with anything in… maybe 10 years. Instead features that people didn’t use enough just get removed.

As shitty as M$ is, it would have been nice to see Windows phone become moderately successful and be a third primary mobile os.

now it’s just a race for the giant conglomerates to make the worst decisions for consumers

Are you kidding me? How am I supposed to live in this damn Orwellian society that is coming?

The EU’s been breathing down Apple’s neck for them trying to do similar shit, so i find the timing kinda weird.
Plus they’d need to force-update their spyware first, i wonder how many versions of android they’re willing to go back.

of course google wants every developers id the second they get into bed with a fascist federal government

Fuck them. I have a guitar a pocket watch and a wind uo radio. Everything have is a nicety.

I came here specifically to ask about alternatives to Android now that google is becoming too abusive in the relationship.

Time to back to the analog world and short wave radios.

google is pissed people were deleting that spying app on android phones, plus thier constant attack on adblocking on youtube wasnt working to well. since samsung and iphones pretty much walled in thier os, why not google.

I’m not giving up my off the market pixel dungeon mods.

okay well goodbye Google, then

what’s the alternative here?

Is this only google phones or all of android?