Post #3707076
2026-07-10 02:15 UTC
But Google no longer has any positive connotations or goodwill in my mind. gMail was cool as hell when everyone else charged for storage. Photosphere was wild, the openness of AOSP (with it's actively-maintained apps), the geeky "It's your OS, do whatever the hell you want"-ness of *rollerblading* to the launch event, then throwing your launch product in the air to show off the app your wrote, was refreshing beyond words
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@xethos@mastodon.xethos.net 2026-07-10 02:21
And *now*... Well, now Google enables the fucking *McDonald's* app to refuse to run because your bootloader isn't locked right the fuck down Google has abandoned AOSP to the extent that AOSP has accessibility services (like TalkBack) that don't work without third-party programs - there is no TTS built in to AOSP, good luck if you're partially sighted (or want spoken directions 🙃) Or we can discuss attestation - imagine in '08 having to tell the crowd "I wrote this really cool app, (1/2)