DeadNinjaHow Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device
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RedstoneValleyThe irony of having to buy a Google phone to get rid of Google services will never cease to amaze me. :/
CerebralHawksThe real irony is paying Google what you’d pay for an iPhone 16 and getting iPhone 11 performance and they’re spying on you and selling your personal information to who knows who. Okay but you wiped the phone and installed custom firmware that doesn’t track you… but you still paid Google the price of current-gen iPhone and got a phone with the performance of one from 5 years ago. Google still won.
The personal information is the point, that’s the real gold mine, and they’ll get it from enough people to not care about the less than 1% of Pixel owners flashing Graphene. For those users, they’re happy to sell generations-old tech at a premium. And they call you a sucker behind your back. And then tell you Apple is the big corporate overlord you’re running from and make it sound like Apple is the enemy. (I’m not saying they’re not, but that’s a convenient story among fandroids. And it may not even be accurate. Because iOS has no open source component though… we don’t know.)
As a GrapheneOS user, having the fastest hardware is not the goal. Pixels can be purchased for a very reasonable price second-hand or from discount resellers. Apple’s hardware is indeed remarkable and iOS being closed-source is not the root of the issue - it’s that they insist on a heavily locked down bootloader, so I will not for a moment consider Apple unless by some miracle they open up their phones to third-party OSes.
I can agree with most of that. I like the Mac a lot more than I like the iPhone. But a Mac can install Linux. They also used to run Windows, and I think they can run Windows ARM but I’m not sure. I’ve also heard Windows ARM is not very good anyway.
Fortunately, Macs don’t require iPhones. My wife has an Android phone and has no problem with using Mac. She just doesn’t get Universal Clipboard, which is nice, but not a deal breaker to lose if you have other reasons to prefer Android.