Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem

Re:Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem by hedora on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @01:21AM (#40508739)

Windows Phone 8.0 was great, partially because of the OS, and partially because MS paid for ports of the top-N apps to it.

GrapheneOS didn’t work as a daily driver for me because I couldn’t reliably use it for uber, lyft, parking or ev charging. The camera support was missing some features.

Most of that is fixable by adding back the google services, but then you lose most of the privacy advantages of having a de-googled phone.

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Re:Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem by chappi42 on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @06:20AM (#40510365)

A note regarding your last point:

  - Google Play is sandboxed [1], you have (important) privacy advantages
  - with a second account for banking apps (or in your example) uber, lyft, one can nicely separate "google-play-apps" from free apps, account switching is fast

[1]: https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play

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