That’s just one of the dumbest reasons to sue Apple…

I did not meant fully degoogled androids! Sorry for the confusion. But most people running custom ROMs add Google play support/emulation because most apps use it.

As for microG, since I’m coming from GrapheneOS, I don’t know much about it. Might be a better solution

iOS has a nice default set of privacy respecting apps. iOS isn’t perfect but it’s as close as you can get to having a usable phone while having some sort of privacy.

Android always sends requests to Google. A de-googled phone with no Play Services is too limiting.

Again, just relatively common sense.

Postfix etc… isn’t that hard to run. I selfhost a mailcow installation, which is considered “full” and “expensive to run” and it’s still really fine to run. Not expensive when scaling up to multiple users, the most important is the initial performance cost per instance.

We’re mostly paying for salaries and R&D I believe. They’re developing other services and stuff, but they could easily charge less and still be profitable, they just wouldn’t have this much reserves.

Perhaps they don’t realise that by lowering their subscription costs, they could get more users… like me

Free plan states

Anonymous Reply + Send From Daily Limit “X”

as unsupported for the free plan… So I’m quite surprised

For sure, but the lack of feature to reply/send is certainly limiting after a certain point

Addy is nice but sometimes blocked, and a bit expensive.

Sure but they probably make more than enough money. Email is really cheap to run

Why :(

That’s not the only way. You can sideload unapproved apps.

If the point is that you can do it, then yea, you can also sideload apps on iOS. It’s an immense pain, limited to X apps, but you can, and you could technically pay with 0% fee…

They are not “all over the OS”. There is a pop-up message that asks you if you want to allow the app to be used as an installer. That’s it.

iirc there was more but alright

You can find your way around, but you’ll spend twice the amount of time doing the same tasks that you could easily do on apps. Also, bye bye bank apps, or any Android games

If you don’t use your phone a lot, understandable, but for most people, nah, not doable

and what % of apps are installed outside of the Google Play Store…?

They push warning messages all over the OS to deter users from doing that…

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/112622

15% for the first $1M (USD) revenue earned by the developer each year 30% for earnings in excess of $1M (USD) revenue earned by the developer each year

Apple takes 30%

90%+ apps require Google play services, which basically allows them to know every app you use, and potentially more.

There’s also a surge in apps implementing integrity checks, which makes you unable to run certain apps entirely with a custom ROM

Google has the exact same policy of getting a large cut of each payment you make…

I would imagine you also have the right not to act

Else… they can just force you to enter the code the same way as they can force you to put your finger on the screen… or force you to look at the screen

I don’t get this thread… if you’re captured they can ask for anything

I mean I self host for 4€/month and I could fit multiple emails in there

Email is pretty much just about storage at some point, and there are a lot more cost effective servers for this, than a simple VPS

5€/month for email? 😵

Great source, thanks :)