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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
In the high-end smartphone market, using an OS from a giant ad company is already a compromise for freedom. But if that freedom vanishes, why bother? Apple's hardware and software outclass Google's. And with E2EE for cloud data, I'd at least stop compromising.