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Gotta say Android 15 didn’t really add anything valuable from my perspective. Everything people actually want to do Google makes sure you can’t. I think I need to switch back to GrapheneOS soon. At least that way there isn’t a limit of like 4 users.

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I hate how much they are locking down Android. If they don’t stop that trend before the next time I buy a phone very well could be forced to buy one of those terrible Linux phones.

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I don’t mind the sandboxing but they need to make things optional for power users. They still don’t have limited access for most of their permissions & even GrapheneOS has added more features around that to limit contacts access & more. Things like desktop mode still suck ass even on Pixel phones. Samsung has went above & beyond with Dex to make it polished & yet Google can’t make anything but alpha level shit. Their MDM sucks ass too & is clearly geared towards only being supported on Google Workspace Enterprise just like Chrome configuration & management. People don’t want to click through a bunch of prompts & menus to reconfigure their phone & desktop to disable all the data collection & spying bullshit they do, and they don’t make it easy to configure that stuff automatically when setting up new devices or profiles.

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Finally made the switch to GrapheneOS recently. The prompt telling me Google Play didn’t have permission to install apps gave me a good chuckle!

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