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1. switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2019 11:20:24 UTC switching.social

   • wakest ⁂

   @liaizon

   Fairphone also make a de-googlised version of Android for people who want to install it:

   https://code.fairphone.com

   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2019 11:23:46 UTC switching.social

     • wakest ⁂

     @liaizon

     Because most people have no idea what free software even is.

     They're advertising to a mainstream audience, and it's usually a good idea to introduce just one new concept at a time (here the new concept is paying more for fairer hardware).

   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2019 17:32:02 UTC switching.social

     • :matrix: Niklas
     • wakest ⁂

     @nipos @liaizon

     Update on this point, Techcrunch article quoted on the Fairphone forums:

     "Out of the box the phone comes with Android 9 preloaded. A post-launch update will make it easy for buyers to wipe Google services off their slate and install the Android Open Source Project instead."

     "...buyers will be able to switch for a non-Google alternative — via an updater that will let them wipe and install the Android Open Source Project flavor of the OS."

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