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please just make an android alternative
I want a phone that isn't a closed ecosystem race to the bottom shit phone
The issue is the hardware, we already have software
All of the alternatives eventually run into the same "Will my banking app work on it?" problem. The absence of a healthy app economy is the one thing that can't be fixed by throwing software engineers at it, and it is what caused the death of Windows Phone.
Right. It wasn’t the zune guy, limited adoption, Microserfs killing the platform after 7 years or a general lack of interest, a climate of distrust after 10 years of garbage operating systems with new logos and the same Windows NT internals…
my banking app already doesn't work on my phone, because it doesn't like termux:x11 and an autoclicker i have installed for an idle game
God I fucking LOVED my windows phone. Nokia body, windows OS, and no one fucked with making viruses because eleventeen people bought one in total.
Lumias before Microsoft' acquisition were adorable phones.
🤣 Man… that phone from The Saint with the slide out full sized keyboard though. Peek Nokia.
They should work in a browser no?
Many banks require apps for 2FA. This varies greatly by country.
Not for things like check deposits, unfortunately
Well, that's fine since it isn't 1982 anymore. Right?
@PabloSexcrowbar @anon_8675309 When my bank _doesn't_ allow check deposits via website, I will switch banks. Ain't installing a stupid app for a _bank_ of all things, and why would I bank from a device that I could accidentally lose at the grocery store?
There are, but the market is rigged by monopolists. And things like banks increasingly require apps that won't even run on customer Android ROMs easily.
The regulators are needed here.
The problem with regulators is that they a) gladly suck corporate dicks, b) gladly opt-in for the same authoritarian methods of population control, and c) gladly ignore common sense altogether.
That is also because we let the companies get too big. We need to break them up. The market is completely dysfunctional. It is feudalism right now.
"a" has a name: regulatory capture.
Regulators have in the past fulfilled their role, they've just been hamstrung.
i hope linux phones succeed
Rejoice. As an Android owner, you have options of And-nodroid 😉
I'm pretty sure that custom roms will remove that 24hr wait period from their binaries. Android is still open source and removing a check isn't going to be very hard for them.
The tech ecosystem is as open as you can. Use linux. Use SearxNG. Use graphene or other custom roms. There's options out there, you just have to start adopting them instead of just complaining online about having no choice.
Not everybody has a choice. I'm currently on grapheneos, but it looks like I may be forced back to android due to national ID requirements.
I guess one solution to that is to have a second used or ultra low cost phone just for your personal ID and banking stuff. But then it's no longer really mobile lol.
AOSP is open source, android isn't
OK but that is about a 10000x bigger project