Because it's profitable to include.
Why would companies care as much about the minor brand value decrease in the eyes of more technical users when they can make more money right now by making things shittier?
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2024
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It's called enshitification. Deshitification isn't so much a thing.
Is it really enshitification if it was like this from essentially the start?
Outside of like literally the very first few android phones when there wasn't even apps for the platform, they came bundled with all sorts of shit. I remember my HTC from 2010 drove me insane with the junkware bundled in, and that was about 2 years post Android's first phone. We're at like more or less steady state shitification. (varies by phone/brand)
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Companies want to spy on you and make money, it's no secret. Just install stock Android or your favorite fork; it quite literally takes 5 minutes with a WebUSB installer.
it quite literally takes 5 minutes with a WebUSB installer.
With a supported phone, on a Chromium browser on Windows. It takes much more than that usually, depending on device, to unlock the bootloader and install a custom ROM
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...and then you're locked out of using your phone to pay for things, can't install banking apps and marginal ID apps, et cetera. 😢
- do you really need to pay with your phone?
- do you need to use a banking app and not call the automated system to check?
- What ID apps would you used on a phone? Having digital ID's is in it's own a huge breach of privacy and i would never consent to such a system
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Unlocking bootloader took me few hours.
I must register new account, install Windows application (Linux not supported, but Windows Server evaluation is free and works as a VM),
have valid SIM card with Internet access.
But worth it, much better experience.
Unfortunately, average person won't do all this things.
That sounds like Xiaomi. The best price to performance ratio of any OEM, but at the cost of terrible software and this... experience... when you want to get rid of it.
Worth noting that not all OEMs are like this.
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Doesn't' the fork like Lineage OS or Graphene also need to support those phone models first?
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