I've seen a lot of similar sentiment on this thread, but the reason I use Android is because it gives me more control than iOS by allowing full-on painless sideloading, and custom distributions like GrapheneOS. They're doing everything they can to turn themselves into a worse Apple. All of the downsides of Apple, but none of the upsides. Apple beats them in every aspect that isn't "openness".
When will the straw break the camel's back? I'm shocked we've let it get to this point with no realistic alternatives. There's no reason a competitive Linux-based smartphone can't exist (no, I'm not counting Android in that).
I hate how this always gets brought up because:
1. Evil has no definition, so it means nothing. They get to define what evil is for themselves. They stated their reasons they think this change is good. You can't prove it breaks their code of conduct.
2. It's straight up false, it's still in their code of conduct:
> And remember... don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!
Right, because someone doing something evil would say outright what they're doing is evil.
> It's straight up false, it's still in their code of conduct
This is news to me. I think it's interesting that they removed it from the opening and put it at the end though.
That's my point. It means nothing, so who cares if it's in the code of conduct?