I can and do currently use F-Droid. But with Google’s changes, I believe it won’t matter which brand you use, you won’t be able to use F-Droid.
This is massive issue for me as I tend to use open source alternatives for most common apps (PDF/document viewer, YT client, 2FA, health tracking, text editor and so on…).
Samsung phones, arguably the most popular Android phone by a large margin comes with LOTS of bloatware that cannot be disabled and they won’t backtrack on that
I could be wrong on this, but at least my A73 doesn’t really have that much bloatware that cannot be disabled.
I don’t have any allegiance to Samsung or Nothing or anything company.
I use Samsung for the family (we all have the same custom launcher) because I am comfortable with their settings and we have an actual Samsung retail/repair location nearby. The A series are also relatively cheap and at least in our country, we don’t have ads.
Nothing implementing adware and spyware is big black mark for them (IMO).
I can and do currently use F-Droid. But with Google’s changes, I believe it won’t matter which brand you use, you won’t be able to use F-Droid.
This is massive issue for me as I tend to use open source alternatives for most common apps (PDF/document viewer, YT client, 2FA, health tracking, text editor and so on…).
I could be wrong on this, but at least my A73 doesn’t really have that much bloatware that cannot be disabled.
I don’t have any allegiance to Samsung or Nothing or anything company.
I use Samsung for the family (we all have the same custom launcher) because I am comfortable with their settings and we have an actual Samsung retail/repair location nearby. The A series are also relatively cheap and at least in our country, we don’t have ads.
Nothing implementing adware and spyware is big black mark for them (IMO).