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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/4069856

(Also, I am aware that using an iPhone is not great for privacy. Please stop telling me.)

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[–] Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you

  • Load a Custom ROM (along the likes of LineageOS, GrapheneOS, ...) on your iPhone
  • use alternative app stores that are not a walled garden (like F-Droid)
  • sideload apps alltogether without an App Store ?

(If there are possibilities, then please tell me and I will reevaluate my opinion. This is not meant as flame, rather as criticism 🤨 .)

[–] mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. no and just a 0,0x% of android users do that
  2. yes
  3. yes

Now leave.

[–] Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Assuming there are 2.5 billion active android devices out there, aand there are 3.2 million LineageOs devices, which is definetively a lower bound, as many users deactivate telemetry or use another ROM, this equals ~0.1% of all Android phones.

If you look at the country stats, that percentage is even higher for the US.

And you are missing another point alltogether: Percentages are deceiving when it comes to sufh immense numbers like # of Android users. 0.00x% can (and do!) still form a meaningful, thriving, somewhat large community.

As to your other points: I was wrong apparently. But I was explicitly asking for dissent. You were just rude.

[–] mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A very elaborate way to say „I like to shit on apple because I can’t even come up with an original online identity“, get a life already, no one cares about your 2012 style brand flame war.

[–] Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Lmao cry and seethe stay hardstuck apple /b/ro enjoy non free licences, stay mad kid, im sorry I just wasted 10 mins of your corpo cuck life, now watch 10 min ads as you fantasize about the AI revolution. Btw, learn to code, its empowering ;-)