No they don't. The current releases for android and iOS both use file based encryption on most supported phones.

A chargeback can be started in minutes.

It has a stable interface on top of Linux, which desktop linux does not have.

Android is not backward compatible. Many old apps are crashing or refuse to work on newer Androids.

Most of them aren't though. Significantly more old games work on Android than they do on Linux desktop distros.

This is why everyone is dropping Linux support and targeting Proton instead.

The only time I've seen old Android games stop working is when they use native 32bit libraries and most Android devices are now unable to run them.

Other than that Android backwards compatibility has been quite good, much better than Desktop Linux anyway!

Given that their OS requires a pixel phone and google is not releasing a) updated drivers b) updated source code for the latest release

their days are indeed numbered.

As for not being a certified android device and being unaffected. That is not true. There will be chilling effects that result in much less FOSS app development for Android, and whether or not an OS is certified is irrelevant in that regard.

That OEM phone is literally years away.

They've said it's either next year or year after that (2027).

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Well it's more private. Also there's only one proper IPv6 implementation (using GUAs) and most people.cant get one

It's exactly as private as doing the same service with a GUA prefix. Just get a PI block and pick a /64 from it to use instead of whatever ULA prefix they picked at the moment.

Do you know roughly how long before the iOS version comes out? I want to switch to iOS from android.

I don't think that's true anymore. They added message history syncing

Source? What message does iOS show?

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Woosh.

That's the whole point.

That was definitely not the point. The author was contrasting a streaming service with purchasing digital music files, implying the latter is "ownership".