• Zoldyck@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      One of the reasons to always cheer on (new) competitors and why we should give new companies a fair chance to establish something

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      Their goal is to ensure OEMs only bundle Google-approved Android for which Google charges licensing fees and which funnels users into Google services. If a phone won’t run your banking app, you probably won’t buy it.

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          Mobile check deposit is a moderately important use case in the USA. It would be possible to do that via the web, but banks usually don’t.

          Regardless, any apps refusing to run will annoy users, and they would likely blame the one brand of phone where that happens instead of the app developer or Google who actually deserve the blame.