▲ 1449 ▼ The state of Playstore (lemmy.dbzer0.com) submitted 3 years ago by svotay@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 294 comments fedilink hide all child comments Ads upon ads upon ads
[+] marmo7ade@lemmy.world 50 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 15 points 3 years ago (1 child) Google has much better software and they charge for it in data/ads instead of money, but there's a much better reason to choose android over IOS: It's open-source, so people have created free software variants of it that retain compatibility with existing apps while respecting your privacy and freedom. In case you care about that, give grapheneOS or calyxOS a shot on your pixel. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheCraiggers@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago If you install a custom build, doesn't that break OS verification (or whatever the name of it was)? Meaning things like Google wallet, but more importantly some banking apps, will fail to work? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 15 points 3 years ago (1 child) Google has much better software and they charge for it in data/ads instead of money, but there's a much better reason to choose android over IOS: It's open-source, so people have created free software variants of it that retain compatibility with existing apps while respecting your privacy and freedom. In case you care about that, give grapheneOS or calyxOS a shot on your pixel. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheCraiggers@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago If you install a custom build, doesn't that break OS verification (or whatever the name of it was)? Meaning things like Google wallet, but more importantly some banking apps, will fail to work? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheCraiggers@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago If you install a custom build, doesn't that break OS verification (or whatever the name of it was)? Meaning things like Google wallet, but more importantly some banking apps, will fail to work? permalink fedilink source parent
