You mean if it’s not possible to easily sideload apps, people won’t buy premium android phones?
Because if that’s the reason, iPhones would be a massive failure.
If everyone in the world was like me and you, yes, the most popular phone would be the fairphone and maybe they would even sell it with a Linux ROM, while iPhones and other phones with locked bootloaders would be impossible to sell even at 95% discount, but we account for the 0.0001%
Installing any apps I want is the only reason I’m on android, if I have to suck it up and bend over backwards for my phone company, I’d buy apple, it’s a much better phone most of the time, better build quality, lasts a few more years both hardware level and security update level.
I mean I’m not switching, but some family members who rely on me for advice on what phone to buy, I don’t think I can recommend android in good faith.
I do not understand this statement.
You mean if it’s not possible to easily sideload apps, people won’t buy premium android phones?
Because if that’s the reason, iPhones would be a massive failure.
If everyone in the world was like me and you, yes, the most popular phone would be the fairphone and maybe they would even sell it with a Linux ROM, while iPhones and other phones with locked bootloaders would be impossible to sell even at 95% discount, but we account for the 0.0001%
Installing any apps I want is the only reason I’m on android, if I have to suck it up and bend over backwards for my phone company, I’d buy apple, it’s a much better phone most of the time, better build quality, lasts a few more years both hardware level and security update level.
I mean I’m not switching, but some family members who rely on me for advice on what phone to buy, I don’t think I can recommend android in good faith.
Yes but ther’s dozens of us…