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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Our smartphones, operating systems and apps are dominated by Google & Apple. "[...] these two Silicon Valley profit-driven companies decide which apps are or aren't allowed, and moderate what our mobile software looks like." says @danlammerhirt from @waag working on the Mobifree project (together with a.o. @efoundation @fdroid @NGIZero @murena @microg @delta

https://waag.org/en/article/why-smartphones-are-key-better-internet/

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

None of this is true for android. You can and always have been able to sideload whatever apps you want so long as it's compiled to work with your version of android.

Apple has always been the walled garden and they are nowhere near in the same league.

If you want to be taken seriously, don't mention apple and android in the same sentence like this. Apple makes phones, android is an operating system and a Foss one at that. Wording like the above shows a major lack of understanding when it comes to tech.

Do better.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is that android is tried heavily to proprietary google software

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

You can still install a ROM ungoogled. It's like https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3872, Google trying to shut down Invidious, but they can't. Don't let big tech fool you, there is freedom, you just need to be educated to those tools.

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