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iPhone users, what's stopping you from switching to Android? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] sunzu@kbin.run 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Its called F-Droid

[–] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's no proprietary apps on F-Droid. It doesn't even have Signal which is open source.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what's your pain point then? With Aurora you can install and automatically update proprietary apps. You can use anonymous accounts so you are not officially logged in (does this still work?). If you want FOSS, then fdroid. There's more updating tools such as unobtanium, but seems what you want is Aurora.

[–] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’d just like to be completely free of Google’s app distribution infrastructure if possible. I’ll have to look into unobtanium. I haven’t heard of that one previously.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Google s is the largest, but not the only one. Amazon, Samsung and some OEMs have their own app stores too.

There are alson sites that archive and distribute apks, like Apkmirror.

I have a tablet logged to nothing (as in no account, not the OEM) and all my apps come from fdroid, obtanium or apkmirror.

It started as an experiment, and honestly it's (for me) not a big hurdle, but an app store would make things easier, that's for sure.

[–] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

Obtainium does look sick. This might be what I was looking for.