There is no viable option if you want a quality smartphone.
Androids spy on you already.
Apple will be spying on you.
The dark side of economies of scale.
Androids spy on you already.
Apple will be spying on you.
The dark side of economies of scale.
Nobody cares. It's just an annoyance for them.
And it requires an enormous more amounr of energy to live your live this way than not caring. Even more if you gotta explain.
And so here we are.
It doesn't need to be perfect. People have constraints, and life is hard.
But politicians and busines people don't care about being good or bad. They just follow the wind.
Now being gay is trendy, well, they are pro gay.
More people care about organic, they sell organic.
Just caring a little, demonstarting a little that we disaprove and want something else orient their decisions. Because their decisions are not driven by moral, it's just business.
Also, even if you don't do any of this, and I can believe I have to even state this, not teasing or shaming those who do would be an improvement.
Things might be better, but it’s not all roses.
Also, it's been several years since I used a custom ROM, but I thought rooted devices were not permitted to use the official Google Play Store? (happy to be corrected if I've got this point wrong!)
Rooted devices can use the official Play Store yes, though most people use Aurora Store to access the Play Store because they tend to remove Google Play Services from their phones as well.
What is to be preserved as core is to have the alternatives. Note: in some areas they are already fading...
(I have this flash of Mr. Pink first trying a "We are professionals, right?", than shielding himself behind concrete.)