With iOS age-gating users in the UK, you may be asking whether to get rid of your iPhone? Will Google will soon follow?
The answer is simple:
Your next device should run an open-source, degoogled operating system: iodé will never include privacy-invasive technologies in iodéOS. #iOS #Android #enshittification #diday
@iode Don't get me wrong, I like what you do, but personally, I do not want anything based on Android, that is ultimately controlled and developed by google.
When they will irremediably move on and close Android code base for "enhancing your experience/security/penis/whatever buzzword shit marketers will find", you'll be stuck in time with latest OSS release and everything will slowly die out, because I don't think any of you (being Iodé or any other ungoogled android distros) would be able to maintain the entire OS.
Instead, I want Linux phones.
@primalmotion @iode AOSP is licensed under Apache 2.0, they can't close it. They can put more and more in their "Google Play Services" that are bundled, but AOSP itself will still be open source code.
It is true, LineageOS and all derivatives such as iodé, /e/, crDroid, etc. would have a huge burden if AOSP was abandoned, but Google even tried hard to move away from Android due to licensing, pushing hard with Fuschia but that failed to gain traction and I think it is largely abandoned.
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I would love for Linux on mobile to succeed, I have been a contributor to Ubuntu Touch for several years, I have collaborated with Droidian developers, I have a device running postmarketOS, I have a PinePhone and have used *all the distros* on it. There has been great progress, but there are many things that are a long ways off: the more the world requires a "mainstream smartphone" for banking, transport (cars, rentals, taxis, etc), and others, the harder it gets.
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All of that means that for you and me, we may choose to live without the services and we could run *pure Linux* on our phones.
But can you get all of your contacts (friends, family, grandparents) to also do that and not use all the services and apps they expect? This is why I joined iodé and started OpenMobile. It really isn't about *me*, its about navigating the system on behalf of those that we care about.
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iodé 🇬🇧
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