Sideloading Android apps will become such a hassle that the practice will effectively die.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    Every savvy user will make this the first thing they do on a new Android phone.

    As an iPhone guy — say what you will about my savviness — it’s the first thing I’d do on a new Android phone.

    But I don’t want a Pixel, I want that new Fairphone. In green. I just don’t have $650 laying around to piss away on a phone.

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      3 days ago

      If you buy a fairphone you can select a non-stock Android being preinstalled, these allegedly are not affected by this change as far as I understood it.

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      4 days ago

      That green is nice…

      A shame that theres basically no used Fairphones on the market - I’d love to give it a whirl and use pmOS with it, but I also dont have $650 :(

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        3 days ago

        I bought a used one around a month ago for messing with pmOS. FP4 was the cheapest but I think I also saw used FP5 ones

        Maybe look around markets in other countries?

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          3 days ago

          Where’d you end up finding it? Swappa has nothing, their forum doesn’t really seem to have many people selling (only looking for components)

          I guess swappa has a few for… $500-600 :(