Everyone in this thread please checkout LineageOS or GrapheneOS or Calyx or similar degoogled android based. Cut yourself free from the Google cancer
If only those worked on more devices. They’re great, but severely limit what phone you can buy if you want to use them.
Also losing camera quality and banking apps/NFC payment sucks. Absolutely not the fault of LineageOS though, they’re doing the best they can within the constraints.
There’s a larger problem though, Google both owns and controls AOSP. Of course, chances of them making it closed or introducing their proprietary services into it are extremely small, but they still are the captain who steers the ship.
If they’ll decide to embed AI (in some open source form), many derivatives like Graphene and LOS may have to suck it and follow through as the more you change your fork away from source code, the harder it becomes to maintain for small team of enthusiast devs.
It is seriously past time to have another serious Linux OS compete with Android.
Fr this crap has been corporatized long enough. Haven’t seen anything great since android 7 and 8.
Not to mention the dalvik runs like a joke by modern standards. Really underutilizing modern hardware by running everything in locked down ultra battery saver java.
I wish even some Chinese company would fund a big OS project given that they have the resources and market where Google can’t effectively compete.
Been nothing but reskins and useless forks for a while now.
Never before has “genius” needed to be in quotes more than in the headline
I don’t need AI in my f*ing phone! It’s just a phone, FFS!
Who uses their phone to be just a phone these days?
I’d say the phone part is the least used of my phone.
I never use the phone part of my personal pocket computer.
If it’s “just a phone”, it’s not running Android. No Android that I ever heard of is “just a phone”.
What I meant is that I use it just as a phone (a bit more useful yes).
Calls, sms/messages/emails, music and some pictures rarely.
That’s it.
I think I’d like it
They just want to kill my battery.
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Wake me up when it’s as useful as Google Now. Not that it will, like assistant it’ll get dropped and Google will move onto the next shiny thing before it does.
Can’t wait to see it randomly eat a lot of my battery, because the AI package decided to calculate something. Oh and those gigabyte of storage just being hooked by the OS for nothing. Also that constant data fishing for “security” or convince and totally not for surveillance.
People forget that there’s still a huge difference if multiple company have different data, without context or data with a whole profile, all at once, all analyzed on the fly and compared to other people. You know why they want that? You can basically predict the future at this point. We don’t even need to vote anymore, if they know everything about you. The danger of data emerges by its consolidation. This is very critical to understand.
It doesn’t even matter if I personally switch to a degoogled phone, if 99,9999% of the people don’t. I might as well not do the effort.
Read the book Firewall.
I’ve never used an iPhone, been a die hard android user since the beginning, but I might switch because of this. I don’t care about AI and don’t want it on my phone.
You are going to need to go with something other then apple if you don’t want it in your phone. All thier plans are around adding it.
I feel your pain as I’m in the same bind.
Most of Apple’s AI will run on device and not online, so that’s something.
Lmao I have ad free YouTube, twitch, and reddit. Not giving that up because I’m scared of an app