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>>kotaKa+(OP)
Google is doing everything in their power to make me move to an iphone... between shit like this, effectively bricking some old models of pixels with un-rollbackable patches that destroy batteries, closing down the android development process, making absurd testing requirements to publish apps, etc.

Google doesn't make better phones, they were just less hostile to the consumer. That seems to be going away :(

>>gpm+ct
As mentioned in OP, Apple is doing the same thing.

>>thayne+Kv
I'm aware, I'm saying Google is trending towards being as abusive with their software practices as Apple already is, not worse.

And saying that for me anyways the only reason I have an Android and not an IPhone is because they were less abusive. On unrelated metrics like hardware quality Apple generally seems to do better.

>>gpm+1w
Apple's hardware quality is pretty solid. Using Apple's software is basically an exercise in being a sub.

I have a stroke everytime I try to navigate settings on a iPhone each time someone asks. It's like they don't want you to try and change anything, ever.