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(clearly doing a cover of Jimmy Barnes’ vocals in Big Enough)

Yours too of course 😘

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Bitty!! Thems some beautiful eyes.

Yooo that slaps

I have three app stores installed on my Android, yet none hog my RAM. This is a non-issue (especially since an update checker doesn’t run all the time, only on infrequent intervals which are triggered by the OS itself).

Other app stores on Android don’t necessarily lead to issues with RAM and usability. They don’t have to re-implement the Google framework stuff.

The same would go for Apple, and people will simply have options. Sure, they’ll have to learn about them, but they have to learn about many things in life! And it’s not like Apple will suddenly allow others to re-implement their SDK.

But there’s no reason to discuss hypotheticals here, as this is currently playing out in the EU. We should be seeing the issues you mention, but we don’t.

And also all current phones would be broken, which they can’t do.

How do other app stores on Android lead to Google stuff not being available? There’s no connection, the reason is sanctions.

How would other app stores on iOS lead to Apple stuff not being available?

But you don’t have Google available as an option due to sanctions, right? It doesn’t have anything to do with other options being available. The same would go for Apple - they could be cut away with sanctions, and having other options wouldn’t preclude the default option from existing.

Sure, but Google is trying to take away that opt-out! So we’ll be left with a monopoly and nothing else. That’s strictly worse than not having a default monopoly.

There’s nothing stopping manufacturers from permanently locking the bootloader. Some do and others don’t suggesting that the industry does not have a universal preference.

Some manufacturers have stopped allowing unlocking their bootloaders, some bootloaders have been hacked by the community. It’s not like this is a static system.

I do think Google wants it to be inconvenient enough to run a version of Android they haven’t blessed as one’s main phone that it has no chance to become mainstream, but that’s about the prospect of an OEM not bundling Google’s apps and store, not hobbyists running custom builds.

No, Google is also trying to stop hobbyists running custom builds from accessing services built on their software (the aforementioned SafetyNet). Hackers keep finding ways around this, but Google keeps trying to lock them out.

GP wrote:

All bootloaders should be able to be unlocked and able to install the OS of your choice. Also you should be able to choose whatever app store you want. It is your hardware, you payed for it.

App stores are just one part of the puzzle. Unless consumers actually have rights, manufacturers will keep trying to limit their options.

Except Google is trying to limit this on Android phones as well (e.g. with SafetyNet).

If manufacturers had their way, there wouldn’t be any phones for one side.

When I was a child I also had this, but for three days.

None of you can imagine the relief I felt when that enema worked. Hardest part was keeping everything in for 5 minutes.

Wait, Bruce Springsteen from Community?

No, that’s not how LLMs work

I need an adult.

Multi-colored beans?

More feet pics pls

No Fortnite