• Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Can you

    • Load a Custom ROM (along the likes of LineageOS, GrapheneOS, …) on your iPhone
    • use alternative app stores that are not a walled garden (like F-Droid)
    • sideload apps alltogether without an App Store ?

    (If there are possibilities, then please tell me and I will reevaluate my opinion. This is not meant as flame, rather as criticism 🤨 .)

    • Nia [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      For the last two you do have limited sideloading via things like Altstore, the catch is that without a developer account you have to refresh the apps once a week or they can’t be opened anymore, and you can only do it for three apps at a time (including the altstore app).

      There are other ways but that’s the only one I know without jailbreaking.

      Back when I had an iPhone I always had an emulator and a third party YouTube app sideloaded

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        1 year ago

        About the 3 apps… If your iPhone can use the MacDirtyCow (MDC) exploit, you can actually have up to (I think) 8 or 9 sideloaded apps. I believe mdc works from 16.0 to 16.1.2

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        1 year ago

        Assuming there are 2.5 billion active android devices out there, aand there are 3.2 million LineageOs devices, which is definetively a lower bound, as many users deactivate telemetry or use another ROM, this equals ~0.1% of all Android phones.

        If you look at the country stats, that percentage is even higher for the US.

        And you are missing another point alltogether: Percentages are deceiving when it comes to sufh immense numbers like # of Android users. 0.00x% can (and do!) still form a meaningful, thriving, somewhat large community.

        As to your other points: I was wrong apparently. But I was explicitly asking for dissent. You were just rude.

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          1 year ago

          A very elaborate way to say „I like to shit on apple because I can’t even come up with an original online identity“, get a life already, no one cares about your 2012 style brand flame war.

          • Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Lmao cry and seethe stay hardstuck apple /b/ro enjoy non free licences, stay mad kid, im sorry I just wasted 10 mins of your corpo cuck life, now watch 10 min ads as you fantasize about the AI revolution. Btw, learn to code, its empowering ;-)