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f-droid has my condolences (thelemmy.club)

submitted 3 days ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca

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Pay the $25 ransom little devs or else!

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[-] huey_m@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

If someone is selling the phone, I think in 90% of cases they've already bought a new one and migrated their data to it.

[-] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

True, however the justification to buy a new phone while already using a 'perfectly good but older model', is that they know they will be able to sell the 'perfectly good but older model' for a good enough price.

Thus, this idea that buying a second hand pixel mean money does not go google is flawed.

[-] huey_m@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

Eh, I see what you're saying, but I think there's always going to be a market for second hand hardware. And what new phone they decide to get, which might not necessarily be Google, isn't going to be influenced by the purchaser, I don't think.

Unless you do like people with iPhones do and you still pay premium prices for used phones... that I could see incentivizing Google specifically as holding value becomes a reason to buy them, as is true with Apple. But I don't think eliminating the incentive for a second hand market altogether is really reasonably possible, personally. May as well pull a Google phone out of the ecosystem and deGoogle it. Who knows? Maybe you sell it yourself years down the line to someone needing a very cheap phone and end up introducing someone else to nonGoogle or Apple OS's.