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

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395 points josephcsible | 3 comments | 13 Oct 25 15:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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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?
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sfdlkj3jk342a ◴[13 Oct 25 16:35 UTC] No.45570357[source]▶
GrapheneOS on a Pixel
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1. 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.
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2. floxy ◴[13 Oct 25 19:38 UTC] No.45572475[source]▶
Graphene is still Android.
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3. moffkalast ◴[13 Oct 25 20:25 UTC] No.45572959[source]▶
Truly the OS by and for people are into excessive nitpicking. I suppose that's what you want for security.