If android blocks direct-installing "sideloading", I will move to Apple and never look the fuck back. This is pure greed and hubris that Google thinks they have the market cornered. They all can go cuck themselves.
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2025
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I've got some bad news...
I mean, obviously apple was like that since the first iphone, but if it's all walled gardens, nothing matters anymore. Well, maybe I'd try a linux phone first.
What about those Xiaomi and other "versions" of android?
If it has Google Play Services, it will be affected. Custom ROMs like Graphene OS and Lineage will keep working. The problem is if app developers and/or most of their users don’t use a custom ROM, it will likely push them out of Android app development. So while it is possible for some users to avoid direct impacts of this change, the overall fallout will be unavoidable.
If they start doing X I will go somewhere where they have been doing X for a long time! That'll show them!
My logic is that if no one allows direct install of apps, I might as well move to a more secure walled garden than the dogshit security posture Android has.
It's interesting to me that there is no thought at all to move to "neither". Of course, that is what they count on, people not willing to give something so perceived important up.
I recently lost my phone for a few days. Until I found it, it was annoying, but life still worked. Of course, it's a major drop in convenience, no doubt, but I would've likely been fine without either Android or iPhone.
You could also move to a degoogled android phone or a linux phone
Would you look at that... All of us struggling what to do, where to go, and replacing Google with Apple was the "solution" all along 🙄
Nah, Linux phones for me, I specificly chose android cause CRapple was shit.
Name one that is:
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ready for prime-time use
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is priced reasonably
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has features commensurate to this year's top-tier phone specs?
Its literally not possible to have a top tier phone unless the company can pre order like 10m chips directly from TSMC. No small company will ever be able to do this.
If you want a top tier phone from a non mega corp you will never get a phone. You have to chose some sacrifice for freedom or stick to the mega corps that will always seem to control you
As a Raymond Carver fan: what the fuck is this headline???