Linux-based phone still ‘runs 99% of Android apps’ so you can do more with it, if you wish.
  • GMac@feddit.orgEnglish
    9·
    5 hours ago

    Whatsapp preinstalled… hard pass from me. All the other considerations like price, browser block, app emulation implementation; those are all things I could probably get past but preinstalled spyware is unacceptable from the get go.

    Edit to add. The app blocking is interesting to me. Instead of thinking about the user being blocked from unstalling and using the app, I’m curious about the technology they will use to block the app (and app maker) from running activity on the device.

    Hopefully the solution includes something like DNS blocking rather than a blacklist on the play integrity api and a reliance on Google killing the unstall of apk from other sources.

    Not sure if DNS blocking explains the browser exclusion which is otherwise a bit odd.

    • plutopos@lemmy.zip
      8·
      4 hours ago

      This phone is probably aimed at countries where Whatsapp is legit mandatory if you want a social life and a job (e.g. much of Europe and South America)