Google Kamera ab Version 10.x erfordert Play Services – Downgrade nötig
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Mit der Version 10.x der Google-Kamera-App (Pixel Camera) hat Google offenbar eine harte Abhängigkeit von den Play Services eingeführt. Unter…

Mit der Version 10.x der Google-Kamera-App (Pixel Camera) hat Google offenbar eine harte Abhängigkeit von den Play Services eingeführt.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    26·
    8 hours ago

    Android is not your friend. If your camera needs to spy on you, then it’s not your camera.

    I use iPhone myself — though I was an Android user longer, and I enjoy both mobile platforms for their various strengths — but we really do need a third option. So Android is kind of like Windows now, it leans heavy into AI (especially on the Pixel side), and it’s on everything (except the iPhone), and iPhone has always just been a pocket Mac, but with the walled app garden. Apple says you can trust them with your personal data, but you don’t know that and Apple is big enough that they can basically do whatever they want — and they’ve been cosying up to fascists in the US. So that’s unsettling. Mobiles need a Linux option. A totally open source option that serves the user exclusively, or can be made to do so. GrapheneOS is a fine choice, but it’s limited to Pixels. If you have anything else, you’re out of luck, and if you have a Pixel, you or someone else has paid Google iPhone money for a device that’s at least a few generations behind performance-wise. So not ideal.

    Of course, most Android users and certainly most Android fans won’t care about this — I’m coming from the privacy perspective. And Google’s always been pretty clear that they are not there for your privacy.

    • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      19·
      7 hours ago

      Android is actually your friend, Google is not. You can take Google out of Android but not Android out of Google.

      There’s a decade of custom ROMs to prove it, unlike an iPhone where someone else dictates every aspect for you. There’s way ahead in performance, but that’s all gone to waste for power users. Even their browser is like the the ones you used to have on flip phones.

      I was hoping the recent monopoly suit to be anything other than a wrist slap for google, but that’s too much to expect from US.