Except Apple has better marketing, and is primarily marketed for those who're excited for every tech "innovation".

My recent experience with my phone is I tell it to set a 5 minute timer and it sets one in the fucking Google search browser, and if I page away I lose the timer.

me too and then it somehow popped up in messages which I had to "turn off" separately. removing AI from an Android phone is an illusion.

Thanks for highlighting this. I might try it out on my OP7Pro.

I switched Gemini language to an unsupported language.

I never said Apple was great, did I?

I'm not signed into a Google account on my phone, am I safe?

Isn't there some form of sampling bias here though? The kind of people who generally would care about these things likely also care about interoperability and would be on Android. I wouldn't be surprised if iPhone users simply don't care if Apple demands them to do anything.

I mean, the way I read it is "not a day goes by on which I am not regretting doing this". So, every day you are regretting it

Even the play store is sandboxed. Those stupid games covered in ads, no where near as bad when the app never has a network connection or access to any files outside its directory.

GrapheneOS: the private and secure mobile OS

GrapheneOS is a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

GrapheneOS (grapheneos.org)

Make your next phone a Pixel and load GrapheneOS onto it. Problem solved.

You kinda did though. I am unsure what your comment is actually truing to convey. Users only have 2 options of mobile OSs that are average consumer ready.

I swear, whenever I try to use it, it just makes me wish I could delete it. I ask the answer to a simple question and it gives me a whole essay on how this one aspect of what I said is more nuanced than one would imagine, and I'm left there waiting 5 minutes to get it to say anything of substance, but it doesn't when I explicitly tell it to "just give me the fucking answer", which I have to say every time for it to say anything useful.

It also doesn't work with timers or anything actually useful and I doubt it'll get any better with third party app access.

Google assistant was so much better, it even still works with its servers being down (for me at least) because it's a better assistant than whatever Gemini is supposed to be.

Does this work with multiple device accounts? Work requires my phone to have a personal/work account to be able to access applications like teams, and it's the only thing keeping me from swapping

In the sense of multiple users in Android settings? That works, it can be enabled in settings -> system -> multiple users. I haven't tested it though, as I don't have any need for that.

I use Microsoft Authenticator and Microsoft Outlook for work, and both work flawlessly with /e/OS. Thankfully I have not had any reason to test Teams, but I'm pretty sure that would work as well.

Wish there were better 3rd party mobile options. On pc I can install Linux on any laptop made in the last 15 years and it will work basically flawlessly. No such equivalent exists for smart phones