It could also make jailbreaking more commonplace, which on the Android side has died down in recent years because sideloading is enough for most users.
I don't think the average user feels like they are really missing anything, which makes it a hard sell.
I definitely fly less now, because I am tired of the Orwellian circus at the airports. I guess same mechanism will reduce my smartphone use
we need more OEM unlockable phones, though. GOS is looking at getting one made, I'm planning to throw money at them to make it happen.
It's the implementation that OEMs used to support VoLTE isn't compatible with AOSP APIs.
If it wasn't for Google here you'd never have VoLTE on custom ROMs, if it exists in any shape or form it's thanks to them.
And maybe a separate one to root while they still can be.
Or a f.u.Google step. I'll despise the straight-jacketing of Apple but my anger about Google's dick-move will keep me going.
This isn't even going to be some sort of an ideological decision. It's simply the intelligent choice.
How will it go? Where are people going to go? People who draw a hard line on this can’t go to iOS for more freedom. Linux phones aren’t ready for prime time. So what’s left? Going back to a flip phone that doesn’t even have the capability of running apps in the same class?