• @rdyoung@lemmy.world
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    338 months ago

    None of this is true for android. You can and always have been able to sideload whatever apps you want so long as it’s compiled to work with your version of android.

    Apple has always been the walled garden and they are nowhere near in the same league.

    If you want to be taken seriously, don’t mention apple and android in the same sentence like this. Apple makes phones, android is an operating system and a Foss one at that. Wording like the above shows a major lack of understanding when it comes to tech.

    Do better.

    • Possibly linux
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      88 months ago

      The problem is that android is tried heavily to proprietary google software

    • 4grams
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      28 months ago

      and if you want to be taken seriously you should rethink your sentences. similar arguments can be made about Apple, that they for example are one of the only players out there (along with Mozilla) to provide an alternate rendering engine. google’s control of the internet is hugely impacted by chrome and android is one of the pillars of that foundation.

      Point is, they both have issues but to some (myself included) I do believe that my privacy and security is better served by Apple, despite the walled garden.

      Pick your poison.

      • @rdyoung@lemmy.world
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        38 months ago

        Just admit your part of a cult and you will have the first step to recovery.

        And I did pick my position damn near 20 years ago at this point. I had a couple of old school ipods but my first “smart phone” was a blackberry, my second was also a blackberry and then I moved to android with a phone sized tablet that only had wifi and they nexus after that. I’ve flashed more roms, backed up and restored more data, etc than you have had friends.

        You have a nice day now and I will add you to the block list as well.

        • 4grams
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          38 months ago

          Well, this is a mature reply. Have a good one.