For me, no love or devotion is due to an operating system or a gadget.
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I don’t use Android tablets and phones because I hate Apple; I most certainly don’t use them because I love Google. And I don’t prefer Android to iOS because it works better than Apple — in some aspects, it does, in some aspects it doesn’t.
I use Android because I don’t trust Google.
(…)Because it requires less trust in Google than using iOS requires that you trust Apple.
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Android allows you to run apps from any store you choose. Google still rejects plenty of apps submitted to its store, but if you don’t like Google’s choices, you can decide to make some of your own.
That’s failing well.
Cory Doctorow: Android and iOS both fail, but Android fails better
