So, the #android #lock-in coming soon, what are my options?
- Mainstream apps, like banking, social services, metrobike, mass transit - they are all hopelessly locked in already, refusing to run without google services (even with microG), let alone on a rooted device.
- My daily drivers: mail, web, various IM clients etc., may or may not be approved.
- What about apps I may make (more likely be given from my friends)?
It seems to me that I should:
1. Keep one stock device to use the locked-in system wherever I cannot avoid it. And keep it home, to avoid as much tracking as possible.
2. Keep one unlocked, with my real daily stack, also working as my mobile access point.
or maybe go for
2. b. Find a device working as a dumbphone & access point (does such animal exist?) plus some non-android portable pc.
What do you people think?
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in reply to 8Petros [Free Radical] • •@8Petros [Free Radical]
This is an interesting issue. I am not nearly as obsessed with the whole de-google movement as many are. Though, if I cannot sideload the apps I write onto my device it will be a game changer for me. I am not big on using mobile devices for business purposes anyway so I have few apps on my phone I cannot do without. I would probably take a similar approach as you have laid out.