<story><title>WordPressiOS Locked by App Store</title><url>https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1296879217297113088</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>turblety</author><text>I know I really don&amp;#x27;t matter to Apple, but this walled garden and app store dictatorship is what finally made me move away from iOS to Android last year. I had used Android in the past, but it was with Samsung Galaxy&amp;#x27;s which where very bloated and awful when compared to Apple.&lt;p&gt;But when a friend told me that Samsung just ruin Android [1] and I should try an actual Google phone, I bought a Pixel and it&amp;#x27;s honestly great.&lt;p&gt;I can install apps I build myself very easily without Google&amp;#x27;s input at all, although I don&amp;#x27;t even need to build apps since their PWA&amp;#x27;s can do almost anything I&amp;#x27;d want.&lt;p&gt;I highly recommend people who are sick of this Apple crap, to try a Google Pixel. I haven&amp;#x27;t even needed to sign up for a Google account since using it (although I have to use an alternative app store).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve already moved three family members over and after a few days they basically don&amp;#x27;t notice a different.&lt;p&gt;Between moving to my Pixel and a Purism laptop I&amp;#x27;m pretty much free from Apple, apart from my work laptop, which isn&amp;#x27;t my choice.&lt;p&gt;1. Disclaimer! I am very privacy, open-source, freedom orientated so if you don&amp;#x27;t mind a bunch of binary blobs that track you maybe Samsung would work for you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kuzimoto</author><text>&amp;gt; I am very privacy, open-source, freedom orientated&lt;p&gt;I like to think I am as well. How do you balance this when moving from Apple to Android, where Apple (seems) to be much more privacy-focused and basically at zero for open-source&amp;#x2F;freedom, where Android is basically the reverse? I think there are ways to make it better (custom ROM, alternative app stores), but you give up a lot of functionality (Play Store, Google Pay, etc.), and I&amp;#x27;m not sure you can entirely eliminate all concerns.&lt;p&gt;I like the freedom of Android, so as long as I understand what I&amp;#x27;m giving up privacy-wise I don&amp;#x27;t mind the trade-off. I have at least tried to make it a little harder for Google, using DuckDuckGo, but I&amp;#x27;m guessing it only makes a dent with the other massive amounts of data they can still glean from the various services running on the phone, Gmail, Maps, etc.</text></comment>
<story><title>WordPressiOS Locked by App Store</title><url>https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1296879217297113088</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>turblety</author><text>I know I really don&amp;#x27;t matter to Apple, but this walled garden and app store dictatorship is what finally made me move away from iOS to Android last year. I had used Android in the past, but it was with Samsung Galaxy&amp;#x27;s which where very bloated and awful when compared to Apple.&lt;p&gt;But when a friend told me that Samsung just ruin Android [1] and I should try an actual Google phone, I bought a Pixel and it&amp;#x27;s honestly great.&lt;p&gt;I can install apps I build myself very easily without Google&amp;#x27;s input at all, although I don&amp;#x27;t even need to build apps since their PWA&amp;#x27;s can do almost anything I&amp;#x27;d want.&lt;p&gt;I highly recommend people who are sick of this Apple crap, to try a Google Pixel. I haven&amp;#x27;t even needed to sign up for a Google account since using it (although I have to use an alternative app store).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve already moved three family members over and after a few days they basically don&amp;#x27;t notice a different.&lt;p&gt;Between moving to my Pixel and a Purism laptop I&amp;#x27;m pretty much free from Apple, apart from my work laptop, which isn&amp;#x27;t my choice.&lt;p&gt;1. Disclaimer! I am very privacy, open-source, freedom orientated so if you don&amp;#x27;t mind a bunch of binary blobs that track you maybe Samsung would work for you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sschueller</author><text>The play store is getting worse and worse. It will eventually end up being just a bad.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile every iteration of Android is getting more locked down because of &amp;quot;security&amp;quot;. No more external cameras etc..&lt;p&gt;The future look bleak until we get a true open source alternative running on open hardware.</text></comment>