limerod@reddthat.comM to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 4 months agoGoogle Confirms Play Store App Deletion—Now Just 6 Weeks Awaywww.forbes.comexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up196arrow-down15
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minus-squareTransporter Room 3@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down5·4 months agoReminder that if they can forcibly delete the app from your phone, you don’t own your phone
minus-squareMango@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·4 months agoThey’re not doing that.
minus-squareeleitl@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoI run LineageOS on my phone (with gapps) and my tablet (sans gapps). If Google tries deleting stuff it doesn’t own on my phone it’s LineageOS sans gapps for my phone and probably buying a phone for GrapheneOS.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 months agoCan’t you just not use Google apps?
minus-squareeleitl@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoPossibly, eventually. Right now I’m using some useful proprietary things from the Play Store, as well as GMail, shared calendar and Maps. I’m getting too old to self host All The Things, but if Google insists to be a dick I’ll let most of it go and self host the rest.
minus-squareDymonika@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoSo what do you have or are you gonna get?
Reminder that if they can forcibly delete the app from your phone, you don’t own your phone
They’re not doing that.
I run LineageOS on my phone (with gapps) and my tablet (sans gapps). If Google tries deleting stuff it doesn’t own on my phone it’s LineageOS sans gapps for my phone and probably buying a phone for GrapheneOS.
Can’t you just not use Google apps?
Possibly, eventually. Right now I’m using some useful proprietary things from the Play Store, as well as GMail, shared calendar and Maps.
I’m getting too old to self host All The Things, but if Google insists to be a dick I’ll let most of it go and self host the rest.
You did before?
So what do you have or are you gonna get?