←back to thread

Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move

(www.makeuseof.com)
395 points josephcsible | 9 comments | 13 Oct 25 15:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.682s | source | bottom
Show context
kypro ◴[13 Oct 25 16:29 UTC] No.45570267[source]▶
As someone who doesn't really care about apps, if I wanted to move away from Android what phones and OSs are worth considering?
replies(6): >>45570357 #>>45570363 #>>45570756 #>>45570930 #>>45571745 #>>45572737 #
1. sfdlkj3jk342a ◴[13 Oct 25 16:35 UTC] No.45570357[source]▶
GrapheneOS on a Pixel
replies(3): >>45570496 #>>45570501 #>>45572441 #
2. moffkalast ◴[13 Oct 25 16:46 UTC] No.45570496[source]▶
It's kind of ironic that you have to actually give Google money in order to not use Android. I'm still amazed that there's no Graphene support for any other device.
replies(1): >>45572475 #
3. la_fayette ◴[13 Oct 25 16:46 UTC] No.45570501[source]▶
Let's see what will the future of Graphene be, since Google is not publishing the device tree anymore for Pixel devices...
replies(2): >>45570807 #>>45570943 #
4. gruez ◴[13 Oct 25 17:11 UTC] No.45570807[source]▶
That's a non-issue for them: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115299586595207105
replies(1): >>45571580 #
5. Batman8675309 ◴[13 Oct 25 17:22 UTC] No.45570943[source]▶
They are building their own device trees now.
6. IlikeKitties ◴[13 Oct 25 18:13 UTC] No.45571580{3}[source]▶
It's not a non-issue i'm sure it's quite annoying to deal with, they just work around it. I hope the deal with their unnamed OEM works out and we get a native GrapheneOS Device. I'd buy it day one.
7. floxy ◴[13 Oct 25 19:36 UTC] No.45572441[source]▶
Does anyone have a rough estimate for how many installation of GrapheneOS there are?
8. floxy ◴[13 Oct 25 19:38 UTC] No.45572475[source]▶
Graphene is still Android.
replies(1): >>45572959 #
9. moffkalast ◴[13 Oct 25 20:25 UTC] No.45572959{3}[source]▶
Truly the OS by and for people are into excessive nitpicking. I suppose that's what you want for security.