Is there going to be a class action lawsuit against this? If they'd have told me that I wasn't allowed to install apps of my choosing on the phone I was about to buy, I never would have bought it. Them changing the terms two years down the line seems criminal
I'm getting to the point where I'm thinking about throwing this thing in the trash.
the year of the Linux ~~desktop~~ phone
If only bank apps would work on Linux mobile environments...
Jokes on them. I have a iPhone. It was never mine to begin with.
can i disable all google apps to escape this apocalypse?
Maybe I'm making it up, but I seem to recall that disabling Google Play Services was enough. But that is easier said than done. Google did a Microsoft with internet explorer, and basically made the whole OS depend on Play Services. A lot of stuff won't work if you disable them, and some of it is unfixable on stock android. You basically need a custom ROM to get away with it, and even then, it has some problems.
I don't use google apps, dialers, gps, browser - most of things are from fdroid, so i believe i can live without evilgoogle crap.
The thing is, Google Play Services is integrated into the OS. Like Microsoft back then, they've made it so that the OS doesn't work properly without it. For example, notifications won't work. Some background tasks will stop. The battery will last less time. You won't be able to log in to any google app, and some third party ones won't let you log in either. Forget about banking apps. The list keeps going...
I really don't know how Google is allowed to do all this after Microsoft got (rightfully) destroyed in court for doing the same with Internet Explorer.
Already on /e/os on my primary phone, hoping to find time to try postmarketOS on the secondary one.
There is no better alternative than postmarketOS btw, everything else relies on Android or isn't fully open.
unfortunately postmarketOS just barely qualifies as usable, and absolutely cannot be pushed as a serious option yet unless people are okay with turning their smartphone into a feature phone.
