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An Apple store found a new low recently when a Sydney, Australia father was not able to purchase an item because the Apple staffer would only process his payment using Apple pay. In a move the buyer recounts as being 'stupidity', a staff member repeatedly tried to get the customer onto Apple pay instead of just processing the payment for the item. Things went downhill after the staffer asked the customer if he had an iPhone. The customer got the impression that he would need to use the Apple Pay app to buy what he wanted, when what he really needed was to pay and leave. After trying, and failing, to find a staff member who would just process his payment, the customer left the store, walked across the street, and purchased the same item from a JB Hi Fi store.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @07:08PM (7 children)
LineageOS (formerly CyanogenMod) is the probably the most common non-Google Android ROM:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LineageOS [wikipedia.org]
https://www.lineageos.org/ [lineageos.org]
You can easily install Lineage without any of the Google stuff.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday February 06 2019, @08:17PM (6 children)
Easily install, yes. Easily use, that's another story. You do lose a bit of convenience but whether your convenience is worth that much and your privacy is worth that little is a decision for you once you've tried it out and can make an informed decision.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @08:27PM (4 children)
AC questioner here, I used CM and the only convenience lost was with the shitty wifi manager that I hope has been changed, and removing Google services kept me from being able to use Uber or some other services that require Google's map API.
You can still keep Google services, and there are plenty of options out there for cloud backups and the like. Only if you're totally locked into Google's ecosystem may you possibly lose convenience, but again you should be able to retain that crap if you want.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @08:42PM
You can book Uber/Lyft with your phone's web browser. I do so with Ubports OS -- absolutely no "Google services" on my non-Android/non-IOS phone.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:05PM (2 children)
"without any of the Google stuff" was the qualification in the comment I replied to, so that's what I answered. I assumed that meant background services, playstore, and the like as well as the standard gapps. The background services are the ones that will cause you the most headaches if they're missing, though not enough that I install them.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @12:46AM (1 child)
All the stuff, none of the fluff: https://microg.org/ [microg.org]
I can't believe you're not using microg. Then luckypatcher to pirate everything.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday February 07 2019, @01:17PM
Kind of defeats the point if you're still using Google services. The library you use doesn't matter if the point of not installing Google shat in the first place was to get away from Google tracking your every move.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @08:44PM
With Lineage OS, you choose whether or not to install the Google crap. In addition, you can always add it (or desired portions of it) later.