I have glasses and the same problem, I think the glasses chafe against the plastic leather without one noticing until it breaks.
That really is the craziest part. Doesn’t matter much if we change everything if the underlying stores and OS still is not sovereign…
The fact that I cannot do banking or log into government sites without a phone with a foreign controlled OS and app store still baffles me…
I kinda agree, techy people will get around it and non-techy people do not install and use third party stores in the first place (does Samsung store count? They probably get a pass I assume). But it is still shitty and offensive and establishes a monopoly that the EU will have a problem with…
I have been thinking non the less to switch to other more open mobile os. I have tried a few, but my current phone is not well supported. When I upgrade in the future I will go for a more open platform.
I think if Google does this they kinda force devs in non-United Statean countries to develop their apps for other platforms too. If European government and banking apps can only be downloaded from United Statean app stores and the OS on United Statean Android phones are locked to only that store, they might have a problem with that…
Hopefully European government and banking apps become available on open source platforms like F-droid.
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