Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by Georgelemental on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:15PM (#31137445)

I use a custom ROM on my Pixel phone to strip out all the user-hostile tracking. It works quite well honestly, no major usability sacrifices

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by hellisothers on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:27PM (#31137578)

Would the tracker blocking available on iOS at the OS level mostly suffice for this?

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by lawl on Saturday April 23, 2022 @04:05PM (#31137974)

Not the person you asked, but no. Because that would mean you have to trust iOS to not track you. I can be convinced that Apple is less bad than Google in that regard, but if Apple has nothing to hide, then they can let me have root, so I can verify, right :) ?

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by urthor on Sunday April 24, 2022 @01:35AM (#31141544)

Is this your custom ROM, or is it a widely known one?

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by Georgelemental on Friday April 29, 2022 @12:21PM (#31207190)

LineageOS with MicroG

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by mixedCase on Saturday April 23, 2022 @05:02PM (#31138518)

SafetyNet?

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by hypothesis on Saturday April 23, 2022 @05:25PM (#31138731)

Are you somewhere where banks won’t let you use their website and force app usage?

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by mixedCase on Sunday April 24, 2022 @07:15PM (#31149170)

Essentially but not exactly. Their website is unusable on a phone. Just switching from mobile mode to desktop mode after login will expire your session.

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by WithinReason on Saturday April 23, 2022 @06:29PM (#31139261)

NFC payments?

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by hypothesis on Saturday April 23, 2022 @07:10PM (#31139577)

That’s fair. Although I personally don’t need that tied to my phone. Maybe it could be substituted with contactless cards?

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by sofixa on Saturday April 23, 2022 @07:24PM (#31139677)

The advantage of phone NFC payments is that there's no limit, unlike with a card which is usually capped rather low (50/100€ here in France).

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