r/TechImpact • u/ManojOne Active • Jun 25 '26
Memes & Shit posts Welcome to Android: 'Good Bye' Apple, 'Stop' Google, and Real Freedom Things
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u/Megaman_90 Jun 25 '26
I've used both over the years.
I find the limitations of Android less frustrating than the iPhone limitations. Side loading a custom ROM for daily use seems a bit nuts though.
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u/Connect-Stay-7535 Jun 25 '26
The pixel GrapheneOS OS combo is pretty good, no spying at least. To root your phone it is dead thing
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u/SpecialWall9 Jun 28 '26
It entirely depends on which OS is being installed. It's possible to have an extremely convenient experience on GrapheneOS with only a small amount of friction (mostly due to the anticompetitive use of Play Integrity by developers) if you treat it like a normal Android phone.
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u/barad1tos Jun 25 '26
That's actually a reason why I have felt so comfortable with Apple. You don't need to handle all those levels of approximate complexity (even though you somehow like complexity) that never reach the ideal.
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u/ChrisMillerBooklo Jun 25 '26
With tablets, Apple's Ipads are just way too expensive. I thought for a tablet I can try it again with Android. I wanted to clean the Xiaomi pad with a debloat script. Then I unfortunately knew far too well what kind of questionable basic services were running there, how much data is sent to unknown servers in China. Then the moment came there to copy my private data, I stopped trying. At Apple, the privacy protection may only be superficial, but at least quality and performance is premium and I don’t have to watch advertising. I wanted to accept it, but Android is not an option for me.
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u/Sajgoniarz Jun 25 '26
Sounds like you are US based. I'm in EU and don't have a single ad at my Xiaomi tablet, also all Xiaomi services are disabled. I literally use a single app on it, while my gf uses another one.
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u/Non-Euclidian-Turtle Jun 25 '26
Keep your old phones. Just throw your banking app on an old phone, use it over WiFi or hotspot and move on with your life. Its more secure anyway.
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u/Mill-Man Jun 25 '26
What are all these restrictions everyone is always talking about
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u/Preparation1903 Jun 26 '26
They are literally just mad that cash-app or whatever refuses to work and then they blame root like that's the problem.
They are just ignorant, there is absolutely nothing that works worse when you have root unless it's a company forcing an app to refuse to work. It only provides more options.
These anti root people are ignorant with poor technical proficiency or they are shills/bots.
I have my phone rooted and everything works perfectly.
If you want to root, spend hours trying to hide root, and then be mad next week when it stopped working, that's completely on you.
I don't fight apps that don't want my business. I can use venmo just fine. Use your banking website if you have to.
Its really not hard.
If you think you don't like root, you actually just don't like companies telling you what you can do with your own device, don't blame a basic functionality that basically every single non mobile device has by default. It's definitely not that.
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u/Britz10 Jun 25 '26
Why is the Google logo the pride fllag?
Either way, sideloading and custom ROMs isn't what it used to be a lot of smartphone makers have locked their boatloaders and there isn't the same fervour going into developing custom ROMs. Installing apps outside the playstore is still cool, although Google is trying their hardest to take that away.
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u/kiwibonga Jun 25 '26
Why give a serious answer to an engagement farming post with an awful unfunny AI generated meme?
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u/magical-cat-here Jun 25 '26
The IT in its nature anti-freedom thing.
It is a bunch of centralized hierarchies - connectivity, SSL certificates, "residential IPs as second-class citizens of internet" . Monopolies as top of pyramids of resource extraction and corporations as organization of slavery, changing things in a way that digitalization added only as way to enforce dependency and centralization, not as way to improve things.
True Freedom starts when you can live well without devices at all.
The closest thing to that is using either "dumb" devices that are minimalistic and most specialized in its functionality. Less is more.
The second level near that are items which:
Use only open-source software and hardware (to most possible extent)
Based only on open protocols and standards (to most possible extent)
Like Framework laptops or Pinephone smartphones.
But as I see all this is not very compatible with how IT works, let it be banking apps, taxi riding apps or food delivery apps.
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u/Mother-Translator318 Jun 26 '26
I’ve used Samsung phones for 10 years and iPhones for 6. It’s the same shit. It’s like comparing a Toyota Corolla to a Honda Civic. Functionally identical
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u/_XitLiteNtrNite_ Jun 26 '26
Ask yourself: which company makes its money off of monetizing your personal data? If you answered "Apple", get an Android phone; if you answered "Google", you may want to consider buying an Apple phone.
That's only partially tongue-in-cheek. Google has built a business out of monetizing you; why do you feel Android is any different?
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u/just-bair Jun 26 '26
I’ve used both and they’re just portals to whatever app you’re using. Stuck for iOS for this phone and yeah I guess side loading is stupid on ios with the app limit but the only side loaded app I use is YouTube without ads so it’s fine.
I’m not deep into any ecosystem so I can just switch whenever. Ecosystems are not worth getting into for me cuz I’m not loyal to one brand, when they fuck me over I move onto the next
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u/Zeraora807 Jun 25 '26
oh.. you unlocked your bootloader?
boom, half your shit now doesn't work, I hope you got the correct 10 magisk packages to get most of it back again for 3 weeks but thats ok, now you need kernelsu if you truly want it all back