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by polycancel 18 days ago
With the state of current Android locking down to iOS level of closeness ( https://keepandroidopen.org )

Since my last smart phone broke, I have held out on getting a smart phone for personal use. Sure for doing professional stuff for work, I'll use the work phone, but NOT going to pay my own money to get a surveillance device now.

If you are a business, and the you don't have a web site working, then yeah too bad.

Until Ubuntu Touch or something similar catches up and can run on old smart phone in a reliable way (not having to hunt down ROM like LineageOS ) it will be going back to before 2007 for me. It is more inconvenient sometimes, but life is also better in many ways.