New Outlook is good, both for yourself and 766 third parties

Re:New Outlook is good, both for yourself and 766 third parties by selfhoster11 on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:22AM (#38444307)

I wasn't an Android user for 13 years because I couldn't afford an iPhone. I was an Android user for 13 years because I despised Apple's vision of mobile computing, specifically more paternalistic tendencies like "not allowed to side-load apps", "no filesystem access for you", "lol what are standards, let's use Lightning for everything".

Don't pretend that Apple and quality of computing go hand in hand. They only do if you buy into their mindset wholesale, warts and all.

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Re:New Outlook is good, both for yourself and 766 third parties by vGPU on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:14PM (#38452129)

And now just about every single android phone does the same thing. Even pixels are carrier locked. I have a 6A that I can’t root for 6 months.

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Re:New Outlook is good, both for yourself and 766 third parties by bmicraft on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:47PM (#38452587)

I too have a 6A, and it's not carrier locked because I didn't get it from a carrier. Easy as that, really. Your carrier isn't Google's fault

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Re:New Outlook is good, both for yourself and 766 third parties by vGPU on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @06:55PM (#38467192)

The point being that even the “Google version” is subject to carrier enshitification, which casts a bad light on android as a whole compared to Apple, who has never compromised on their “take it or leave it” stance with regards to their vision and product in discussions with carriers.

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