Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

https://lemmy.world/post/35251795

Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann - Lemmy.World

https://consumerrights.wiki/index.php?title=Android_Developer_Verification [https://consumerrights.wiki/index.php?title=Android_Developer_Verification]

If Google is going to lock down my device to the point where I can’t install apps without their permission, I might as well dump Android and go straight to Apple. I sacrificed my phone being good for the openness of the platform, but if Google loses that openness, why shouldn’t I go with Apple?

The only answer is money at that point. I don’t know how much phones are these days, but aren’t iPhones like $1400, but Android is like $900?

I may be wrong though. Last time I bought a phone was 2018, and it was $600. Still using it.

The regular iPhone and S25 are exactly the same price.

The S25 ultra is $100 MORE expensive than the iPhone 16 pro max.

samsung.com/…/galaxy-s25-ultra-256gb-unlocked-sku…

www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-16-pro

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