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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by immibis on Monday August 05, 2024 @09:54PM (#41167218)
If the choices are substantially different, you have a choice. Windows or Linux or Mac is a real choice - just because you'd prefer Haiku doesn't mean you don't have a choice. There's a huge range of android phones, and many of them have been reverse engineered enough to run non-google versions of Android (find out before buying). I have a PinePhone, but I don't use it regularly. It runs nearly-mainline Linux. Even things like Apache and X11 if I want it to.
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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by usr1106 on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @01:20AM (#41168001)
I am typing this on a phone running SailfishOS. Still that's hardly a real choice for me who has worked 20 years as a phone or Linux developer. No banks, no public transit tickets, no city bike, no you name it.

Not an option for the wide public.

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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by immibis on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @08:05AM (#41170036)
So the actual lack of choice here is not the phone, but the apps. No different from having to install Windows to run your apps in 2003.
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