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How many things to you really use your phone for anyway.

Personally all I need is the basic things like a camera app, maps, authenticator, web browser, pdf reader, note taker, clock, etc.

It’s really not that much

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Omgpwnies@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Banking/financial apps are the biggest sticking point that I keep hearing about. They won’t run on a non-Google Android, let alone an AOSP container in Linux.

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- sabin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Anything I can do through my banking app I could just as email do through the browser
  
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  - Finofilipino@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    You won’t be able to do NFC payments over just a web browser.
    
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    sabin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Never used this feature. I think this sort of QOL feature is something I’d be happy to wait on. The ecosystem doesn’t need this to launch at least imo.
    
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Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
If a phone can’t do banking it’s literally a worthless brick and so unprofitable that a company would have to be actively suicidal to try to produce it at literally any scale above the absolute minimum.

That or it would have to be so absurdly expensive per unit that no one would buy it.

Or spec it so pathetically weak that even the most die hard of nerds wouldn’t want it.

There’s always selling it at a fat loss of course. But selling hardware isn’t like just doing a rom. So this can’t be as shitty or jank as android roms with no formal customer support behide it.

Which means a very high cost in software and support.

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- sabin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Web browsers can work from day one. I used my web browser for all my mobile banking for months when a bug rendered the app unusable.
  
  Tap payments might not work until banks make apps for it (or more likely until android compatibility layers are provided) but you’d have to be pretty petulant to suggest that this feature not having first class support from day one makes a device unusable.
  
  Google is going the way of apple-like full control over their mobile devices while even lower end modern day phones are easily capable of surpassing the computational needs of 99 percent of daily users. The use case for mobile linux devices is growing all the while cost per unit sold decreases.
  
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