Ulrich

I wasn’t being rude. That was only you. And since you continue to do so, you can have this argument with yourself. Goodbye.

Unfortunately many of the apps needed just to exist as a member of society are only available in the Play Store.

I don’t even know what this is supposed to say or mean.

It’s not the “latest” Pixel generations, devices as old as the Pixel 4 receive extended support (although it’s obviously not recommended) and that’s mostly because Google does not support them. This will be greatly improved moving forward, since Google has promised much longer update cycles for new devices.

the OEM has to make and test these updates anyway. In virtually all cases they will then release these worldwide

I wouldn’t be so sure. There’s a vested interest in NOT shipping them outside the EU. It’s called planned obsolescence. Just looks at Macs and OCLP. It’s so easy to keep older Macs updated that it’s actually able to be done by some random developers in their free time (not to trivialize this effort, just to say that it would be extremely trivial for Apple as the developer of the OS and one of the most profitable companies in the world to do it). And yet Apple does not ship these updates to them. Why? Because they want you to buy new shit and they know not doing so will render them virtually useless in a short time.

I know it seems like I’m being mean in this comment

You are just being mean and extremely rude. It’s completely unnecessary and I’ve done absolutely nothing to deserve such language. You are actively making this community shittier.

The unfortunate reality of an app like this is that it requires a level of privacy that few are equipped to utilize.

Everyone who downloads ICEblock gets logged by Apple accordingly. Everyone who receives notifications from ICEBlock are similarly logged. The White House has made it abundantly clear that they will prosecute “to the fullest extent of the law”.

That’s more complicated than a short comment can summarize

You realize there’s a whole rest of the world that’s not the EU?

Not having security updates makes it effectively trash, as far as I’m concerned.

Yeah that’s great news. Esp. considering it’s an $800+ phone.

The big problem with anything not Google or Samsung is, as it’s always been, software support. You get 2 or maybe 3 years of updates and then the device is trash. So you can save a buck on the short term but it will cost you more in the long run and you’ll have shitty devices all the way along anyway.

You can buy a 2 year old Pixel for $2-300 and it will last you another 4-5 years (unless Google remotely nukes your battery).

I just did. Could you be more specific about what you’re asking?

There are no legitimate concerns outside of iOS. The dev doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Apple and Google have identical privacy flaws in their notifications. The difference is only 1 platform allows you to use a different notification system entirely. And only 1 platform allows you to download apps without logging who is doing it.

Why would you be glad?

Install uBO?

TLDR: Drug dealers in Catalonia have started to adopt GrapheneOS

Gonna guess that’s probably a lie.

I don’t believe you

I’m aware, thank you.

Alternatively:

• Install GrapheneOS
• Never concern yourself with invasive software again

I’ve never even seen Gemini on my phone.

If it works the way they claim it is indeed very private.