A federal judge in the United States has ordered tech giant Google to open its Android smartphones to rival app stores. The order comes after an antitrust case in which a jury decided Google had illegal…
Security, data harvesting transparency (I wouldn’t go so far as calling it privacy lol), predictability, hardware longevity (though this gap is shrinking now), and inter-product integration. Also vendor lock-in lol.
Holy shit do I just want to be able to sideload my own personal apps on my device without Apple’s approval
Why buy a device where you couldn’t?
Security, data harvesting transparency (I wouldn’t go so far as calling it privacy lol), predictability, hardware longevity (though this gap is shrinking now), and inter-product integration. Also vendor lock-in lol.