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Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse (jacobin.com)
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Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 41 points 2 days ago (2 children)

F-Droid is a decent replacement for the play store. Lots of FOSS and less-enshittified apps available.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately many of the apps needed just to exist as a member of society are only available in the Play Store.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Tried to rely fully on F-droid several years ago. That experiment went just fine until I needed up update the apps. Turns out, there wasn't a simple one button solution to that. I had to manually update each and every app one by one. Is it any better these days?

[–] TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Unattended updates for everyone, 1.19 is here https://f-droid.org/2024/02/01/twif.html

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That happened in 2024? About time! Sounds like F-droid is actually becoming viable.

[–] TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

I could be completely wrong as it's outside of my areas of competency, but my understanding is that the functionality was harder to achieve because of some technical reason due in part to Google/Alphabet fuckery. So another day ending in "y".

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 7 points 2 days ago

Try the Droidify app. I find it better than the main FDroid app.