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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The whiplash between posts on Lemmy is so great.

Everyone seems to hate google and how invasive they are while simultaneously simping for google’s mobile OS

This shit is so stupid.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

If one person believes one thing and another person believes the opposite, that doesn't mean they're hypocrites. That means there isn't a consensus. Besides, android can be better than iOS and deserving of criticism at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Or maybe people hate Google ruining the internet AND realise that iOS is still much worse than Android? The two things are in no way mutually exclusive unless you view the world as a tribal binary.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Android can be whatever a dedicated community wants it to be, since it's open source at its AOSP core.

I love AOSP, but I hate what Google does with it. Or most other manufacturers, for that matter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Chromium is open source, too, but so many projects putting all their eggs in the same basket gives Google carte blanche to push any standard they want as a new de-facto standard before the rest of us can decide on whether it's ready or needs changes or is just bad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you can't or don't want to root the phone and install your own de-Googled Android rom then you could get an Android phone designed for mainland China, which will come with all of the Google stuff already removed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Because I’d trust anything Chinese/for China more than I’d trust google.