Regardless of whether Apple bows down to pressure on this, it shows you how they think. It’s their phone, not yours. Tim Apple is your daddy and as long as you live under his roof, you live under his rules. And he’s just made it clear he can enter your room whenever he likes and search your drawers. Might be time to think about moving out.
Problem is, where do you go? Do you move in with creepy uncle Google next door? No, he’s even worse.
And your banking app only works on iOS and Android…
…I’m seeing people say “just don’t use an iPhone.” It’s not that simple when everyday things like financial apps with two-factor authentication are locked into the two main platforms.
We need legislation to ensure critical services use open standards so you can use your Pinephone to buy lunch in the future.
It’s shocking how easily some folks jump to “just go live in a cave.” No, that’s not an acceptable alternative. We deserve to partake in modern life without sacrificing our human rights…
I agree here. We need more apps on pine phone but NOT in some cases pre-installed,
I wonder if the facebook app would even work when it can't figure out your location as you have turned the GPS thingy off and other features to hamper that tracking if people insist on using facebook, in fact having to go through hoops to get facebook functionality may make people realise what that app does and make people think twice.
@zleap Also, give me five minutes a room with your Pinephone and it’ll be my Pinephone. You cannot protect privacy without good security. So some of these projects really have to start thinking like phones/everyday devices now and not just tinker toys for geeks.