I don't want to laugh about this. I am seriously freaking out at the idea of using the built-in apps instead of the open source equivalents. Calculator with Internet access? Camera app with ads before I click? Browser that spies on me no matter what searches I perform? No thank you.

1. Introduce cutting edge tech to the masses, claiming it will usher in a new era of connection, convenience and utility.

2. Firmly entrench that tech into every corner of modern society so that most day-to-day activities SUPPOSEDLY cannot be done without it.

3. Slowly tighten the screws by removing user agency and freedom while raising prices.

4. Become obscenely wealthy from an entire generation of locked-in consumers who think they have no choice but to submit to your control over their lives.

5. Wash, rinse and repeat.

So an iPhone

Can't stay on Android because Google is anti-privacy. Can't get a GrapheneOS phone because they're only compatible with non-repairable devices. Can't get a FairPhone or Jolla because I live in America. Can't get an HMD because the bootloader is locked.

Even e/os and LineageOS have security problems.

There is no good phone on the market, to my knowledge. You can't have privacy, repairability, and security all at the same time.

This is the behaviour that brings you to pay multi billion fines in Europe

I'm surprised Google took 20 years to completely enshittify Android.

I paid off my old phone early and got a grapheneOS phone ASAP just because of these motherfuckers.

Hell, I was firmly in the Android camp specifically because of the open source nature of their software. I never made the apps I wanted to make, but I like having the option to do so.

So you can go fuck yourself, google. Yes my phone is a Googlepixel 10 because they work best with grapheneOS. In a few years if I can I will get a Linux phone.

A yellow-coded curfew is in effect. This is for your security.

So I'll keep using F-Droid then?

it's a nice incentive to double down on my degoogle efforts

You also get AI features you never wanted. Now shut up and be happy

So I already have apps downloaded from f-droid including encrypted folder. What happens to this from September. Do i get to keep them?

If i do get to keep them are there any apps I should download while I still can?

Also if f droid is going to stop working but I already have it what does that mean? Are google going to outright takeover my phone like some IT department in a big company and delete and install everything they want on there?

What in the Apple products are you trying to do Google? Guess we will just dump you like we did Windows when they put 11 out and the Linux draw became too great.

Yes, dear.

Convenience usually wins until it doesn't.

Will graphene get fucked by this too? My plan was to switch over in September but I'm not sure if the changes mean graphene will be made useless.

Guess I'll switch to graphene OS. Oh the horror!!!

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