@sodiboo @tauon @puppygirlhornypost2 @silly I don't think it's much of a "#freedom" on #iOS but rather that the few devices and OS versions in circulation, alongside everyone from #jailbreaker to #malware (espechally #govware #developers) want to crack it open result in way more personnel and money behind it.

• OFC the fact that the #Android experience is worse from that POV is the lack of #regulation re: #repairability and #openness that would make shit work. Most cheap #phones are done with even cheaper #SoC's by manufacturers who can't be assed (or frankly don't give a shit at all!) when it comes to #Linux #mainline support. (I mean, you've seen the video where @SexyCyborg demanded a vendor to give her the sourcecode as per #GPLv2 for her device?)

Granted @GrapheneOS does limit their support to devices that can comply with their #security standards.

• The issues are mostly caused by hostile app developers that specifically decided to knee-jerk their users / customers for no good reason.

I do wish for both vendors like #Fairphone to up their game and regulators like @EUCommission to actually push for more #transparency, #openness and #LongTermSupport of #Smartphones, because #ManufacturedEwaste like #SOYES, #WiKo, #Unihertz and others that ship #outdated #AndroidDevices and never even a single update are a major problem!

• I don't blame projects like @LineageOS that they can't cover every device & SoC even tho they propably have the widest compatibility, I just think that there needs to be pressure that manufacturers don't just vomit stuff on the market and let customers frustratingly figure out the rest.

I do have to give #Apple credit where it is due, and that is that #iOS does have consistency and accessibility nailed down very well. Something that they obviously are able being the "#BenevolentDictator" of a #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider - platform.

• Obviously since they are the #vendor for #hardware and the sole ["legitimate" / official] #distributor for any #Apps they do OFC cross-finance their relatively long #support with their 15-30% cut from #App #sales & #InAppPurchase|s they charge, which is why #AndroidPhones suffer the "#3DO syndrome": Needing to charge more since they only get to make money once with hardware sales and not after that, so there's no incentive for them to give a shit beyond "brand value" to care. #Google, #Samsing, #Fairphone and very few others do, but most don't as they close the books on the product once launched and sold out (angrily stares at Unihertz)...

Maybe one day the folks at @frameworkcomputer acquire Fairphone and decide to bring the same modularity to #Smartphones and get something done that makes it easy to maintain long-term and that even #GrapheneOS are willing to support.

• Until then the #Enshittification is ruining everything as usual...

@alsutton @aurynn @GrapheneOS @EUCommission @bsi I disagree.

It'll merely force them to enable aftermarket support woth an unbloated experience.

• It won't prevent manufacturers from offering and implementing unique features in terms of hardware and software.

It'll just make them responsible to not release products like #Unihertz, #WiKo, #SOYES and many others which refuse to deliver any post-launch #updates and thus sell manufactured #eWaste.

• Or has anyone seen Updates being released for the #UnihertzJelly series (including #JellyStar, #Jelly2E and #JellyMax)?

#AOSP support and #reproduceableBuilds would at least allow #Aftermarket-#ROMs like @LineageOS to support them when the manufacturer decides not to.

• Whether that happens is a different story, but at least #consumers wouldn't be at the mercy of a #vendor when it comes to #security!

@GrapheneOS @thomas @wonka OFC #Google abuses it to enforce their #monopoly and choke alternative ROMs to death with this anti-feature #DRM.

• Granted @EUCommission & other #Watchdogs propably neither understand nor care about the seriousness of this issue...

It's obvious #GrapheneOS' devs rather refuse to support hardware than to do concessions in terms of #Security...

• But besides that I think that any decently maintained #Android distro like #LineageOS should be accepted when #unmaintained & #abandoned-after-release #eWaste producers like #Wiko and #Unihertz get past that #PlayIntegrity check, which are the ultimate evidence pieces that "#security" isn't even a #figleaf in this discussion!

As @uint8_t said: it's #SecurityTheater and has nothing to do woth either #security nor #integrity!

@uint8_t @GrapheneOS exactly that...

Even "manufactured #eWaste" that never gets Updates like the #SOYES XS13, #Wiko Lenny and #Unihertz, #Ulefone, ... garbage brands have it.