The behavior is actively endorsed by the platform.

I just hope more open phones like the rumored Graphene phone with actually good high-end hardware are out by then so I can leave their ecosystem comfortably. As you wrote, Google has a history of abusive behavior and doing what they want anyway.

Interesting! I learned a new word. And yes, look to Google Chrome’s walking back of blocking ad-blockers to its eventually implementation anyway once people stopped screaming about it.

That’s the problem; handset makers don’t believe you own the phone. They think it’s their phone that you’re paying to use temporarily.

I have family members who can’t change their phone wallpaper through the GUI. Your standards are far too high!

Google has far too much power. We should not be subject to the whims of a company that does not and cannot have our best interests at heart. For this reason, my next phone will be a Fairphone or, I hope, the new Graphene phone when it comes out late next year.

The day they come out with that phone they’re supposedly working on I intend to buy it.

“Ripping away the retirements we have earned is a betrayal of the sacrifices made by service members and our families,” he said. “We should not be thrown into economic hardship or made to feel our years of service are regarded by our country as meaningless.”

I think our leaders were very clear with their “fuck you” to trans service members. You have been deemed worthless. That’s the disgusting state of America today.