I don’t get why you’re getting dowvoted. I guess there are a lot of Americans over here. But your statement is absolutely true. The US attempts at restricting China’s access to various technologies only make sense if they feel threatened by them.

I mean, I’m sure they sell Android phones in the UK. Why do you buy Apple products if you are aware of their monopolistic practices that have to be battled with legislation?

Interesting. I like the UI. I doubt the aesthetic people on Tumblr would like it but that’s not the point.

it’s always welcome to have more options in the fediverse.

How is federation working, BTW? I see you’ve commented from wafrn, are you able to follow Lemmy communities from there?

stop consuming Apple marketing.

For starters, you can degoogle Android, you can’t deapple iOS.

You can replace the manufacturer android with a clean, free software and secure Android ROM, like GrapheneOS. iOS is a black box, fully proprietary and controlled by Apple.

You can install apps from third parties on Android, like F-Droid. On iOS every app must be approved by Apple.

You can’t use an iPhone without an Apple account, you can use Android without a Google account.

Android has multiple profiles support, which comes handy for completely isolating apps from the rest of your phone.

There’s much, much more. That’s just what came to my mind right now.

I despise Google, and I agree with chromium, but when the only other alternative is using the proprietary walled garden that is iOS, I’ll take degoogled Android everyday.

XMPP was there before Matrix and will be there after Matrix dies when the venture capitalists behind Element funding decide to move the money somewhere else.

use Newpipe, it’s free software, unlike revanced.