The problem is that there are very good reasons to have specific authoritative app stores/package repositories. and it is a lot harder to have privileged and unprivileged accounts on a phone versus a computer.
But yeah. Something has to be done about that since it is the fundamental issue with mobile devices.
Congrats. You just volunteered to teach all the boomers (and the zoomers who can’t do anything that isn’t google docs) how to set all that up and maintain it
Then to switch, there will be a new icon next to the Settings icon when you swipe down. Tap that and select the profile you want.
I use GrapheneOS, which ships w/o Google Play by default (installation process is a little trickier, but still easy), but most phones won’t have an option to uninstall Google Play since it’s a default system app. But if have managed to install GrapheneOS, setting up a profile to quarantine your Google Play apps is pretty easy.
The problem is that there are very good reasons to have specific authoritative app stores/package repositories. and it is a lot harder to have privileged and unprivileged accounts on a phone versus a computer.
But yeah. Something has to be done about that since it is the fundamental issue with mobile devices.
Almost like those systems were designed to be monopolistic and anti-competitive from the very beginning…
Is it though? I have three profiles on my phone:
This is on GrapheneOS, and they basically just ship AOSP with some patches on top.
Congrats. You just volunteered to teach all the boomers (and the zoomers who can’t do anything that isn’t google docs) how to set all that up and maintain it
May Erastil have mercy on your soul
Eh, it’s not too bad:
Then to switch, there will be a new icon next to the Settings icon when you swipe down. Tap that and select the profile you want.
I use GrapheneOS, which ships w/o Google Play by default (installation process is a little trickier, but still easy), but most phones won’t have an option to uninstall Google Play since it’s a default system app. But if have managed to install GrapheneOS, setting up a profile to quarantine your Google Play apps is pretty easy.