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Highly recommend using F-Droid-capable phones/mobile support systems. Perhaps one day the iOS ecosystem will recognize the economic value of democratizing the platform, but until that day it's better to use open source software and as open of hardware as possible.

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I think they are going to be forced to open the platform soon, per the new Digital Markets Act by the EU.

Once again, the EU does something right for it's citizens in the face of exploitative practices.

This is good advice. If you own an iOS device you should consider not owning an iOS device.

As a long time iOS user, I used a Pixel with Graphene for a whole year.

Android has so many rough edges, and the Pixel hardware is still a few years behind the iPhone. I switched back.

I miss syncthing and being able to install the apps that I want, but my phone is too important a device for rough edges.

Interesting. I'd never used an android before, and recently got a Pixel 7a on which I am running lineageos. Haven't found any rough edges other than that the home screen sometimes hangs fixed by turning the screen off and on again which takes less than 5s. What rough edges did you encounter?

GrapheneOS did not meet my needs for sovereign control of my own device, and iOS is worse in this regard, so I gave up cell phones entirely 2 years ago. Turns out they are not as necessary as we convince ourselves they are.

I would love not to, but there is not a single human-sized (as in can be operated by human hand) android phone on the market that is also not a slow budget ohone. Now there is no iphone either, but the last minis should last a while.

Apple's moving away from them as well, to the detriment of their design edge.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/12/23868428/iphone-13-mini-l...

The parent comment was a suggestion for an iOS alternative.

Why did you feel the urge to push unsolicited advice? I honestly don’t get it.

Currently, iOS is a substandard platform for software freedom. While it has done a fairly decent job implementing a good user interface, it comes at the cost of freedom on mobile devices, leaving users and developers to the capricious whims of a single company. When that company decides to break encryption for any external group, is eventually hacked, or other myriad of other single single failure node situations occur, the collateral damage is massive.

Mobian et al is the alternative, not surveillanceOS.

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