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jasonvorhe on June 11, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Android now forces apps to include proprietary cod...

Who exactly is buying Android phones based on the premise of openness vs "they're cheaper", "it was a subsidized new phone from my carrier"?

_mj0m on June 12, 2019 [–]

Personally I've always bought Android (and while it lasted Firefox OS) phones because of the option to easily tinker with the phones. If/When pure linux phones make a come back I'll be moving on to them. Of course nerds being nerds is an outlier.

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