Google could be working on a feature that syncs notifications between your Android phones and your Android tablets.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    What if you don’t want a Pixel? Or a Fairphone? Or one of the very, VERY few cellphones that you can install a deGoogled OS on?

    There are precious few ways of escaping the Google monopoly. I own a Fairphone running CalyxOS, and it happens to be the phone I want because of its excellent repairability. So lucky me. But if I didn’t want a Fairphone, nor any Samsung phone, nor any Chinese cellphone, and certainly not a fucking Google phone - because I’d rather cut off my left nut than give Google money to escape Google’s surveillance, that’s just too rich for me - then I’d be SOL.

    My point is, if you refuse to be Google’s bitch, Google backs you into a corner. Just because you’re happy with the corner doesn’t mean you’re not stuck in a corner.

    • catloaf@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Then get one you do want? Or accept that you might not get 100% of what you want in a phone, but then that’s true of everything in life, really.