I guess what I’m trying to say is, what is the growth of GOS gonna be? If Google is kicking them out and they’re focusing on flagship phones from Motorola, then it sounds like they have limited their growth potential have they not?

Yeah, you can buy any phone to install any OS system (if you can even find the right model for it) or just degoogle it and use it like that. Thats not a big deal.

The ditching only comes in when you can’t use apps because your OS no longer supports it. That too can happen to any phone.

Semi rant: (Pet peeve about the part in the chart about Apple) I use to have an iPhone, and experienced the phones from an iPhone 6, 12 to iPhone 15 and I can say that max is like 2-4 years, not whatever the hell that article is trying to suggest. Shit, if your phone is 1-2 OS system older than what an app requires, its gonna force you to update the phones. Longetivity of iPhones is very lackluster.

I know, but Im spcifically speaking on GOS and how they as well sound like they are closing themsevles off.

Even though that’s true. Phones really shouldnt be expensive. GOS isn’t supporting the older phones, I think the oldest you can go now is the pixel 7. Since GOS is stopping for the Pixel 11, Is there any other alternative OS that can be used for pixels? Or where are the other phones that supports GOS?

Google is closing in on their phones. GOS users in a time span of 3-7 years (depending on the pixel they have) would unfortunately have to find an alternative after that lifespan unless GOS starts supporting other phones that isnt breaking the bank. GOS as well is basically closing off their OS market. Which is why I made that comment. If you want the OS now, they’re gonna make you pay for it.

Motorola is unfortunately gonna be in the same boat too when it comes to the prices. And I highly doubt GOS is gonna focus on their cheaper phones because they notoriously have poorer software. So now, it seems GOS is gonna be an exclusive feature. If you want it, your gonna have to pay for it.

I personally don’t trust Motorola due to having poor experiences with their budget phones. Its not worth with unless you shell out the money.

I got one of the budget phones from Muerna, the Teracube 2s. You gotta go really light on the apps on this phone if you want to find e/OS alternatives, otherwise itll be either laggy, slow or just break and won’t work. Fennec has a lot of privacy features on its app, to the point where some things just won’t freaking load if your really concerned about internet traffic, ads, trackers etc. For me it just dosent work on this phone unless I use it on my other phone ive been experimenting with, Galaxy A16 5g.

I really wanted to use Fennec but its so freaking slow

Hmmm I just downloaded it and so far its fine. 🤔Im gonna give it a shot and try it out

Thats what I do too. But for mobile, currently I’m using DuckDuckGo until I find something that can work right on this phone. The default browser for this phone is garbage and Iv been trying to find an alternative since then.

For everyone using Firefox, are you using it with microG or some type of sandbox? Even when going private, you can’t download it unless you have Google Play services on mobile. Ive tried to see if it works without google and unfortunately it dosent. If that’s the case for mobile, then technically we really shouldn’t be using it either.

I can’t stand looking at either but I prefer to have it with no number 😳

You forgot about moths🤔

🤫let’s not rally them up now, dam🤣🤣

Oh… That’s not what I meant in this context at all🤣

OMG people take a chill pill. 😮‍💨

For now, I just reinstalled the original launcher. Don’t wanna cause that issue again on this phone 😅

Unless it’s the actual OS itself, I absolutely agree. BlissLauncher (the launcher for e/OS on the phone I have, the Teracube 2s) is such a stupid and very limited launcher.

You cant put widgets on your pages, after the main notification page. you can’t make the app icons to big or the names for the apps to large, and if you do, it starts to lag. And now this issue, changing the launcher apparently, makes the navigation panel not operational. It’s the most stupidest thing I’ve seen so far on this phone.

I don’t know. There’s no negativity here so I don’t see why y’all are doing it in the first place? Either y’all are being really sensitive or I’m missing something here. I put up this post to make a laugh, if y’all wanna comment, let’s say giving advice or just laughing back, cool. But the downvotes are really fucking stupid. Downvote something that’s honestly really bad or concerning.

Yes, it’s an android setting, but I don’t know why, it started working normally after reinstalling BlissLauncher

I was messing with them when trying out the different launchers and it was not working properly for some reason. I have no idea why it was acting like that. But when I reinstalled the original launcher that was preinstalled in the phone, it started working normally again.

The phone I have is a new phone. 🤣

I can’t stand these USBC cords and now these USBC flash drives are a thing. They end up being a 2-n-1 or you gotta buy ANOTHER adapter for the USBC or whatever needs to be attach to it in order to work. Its just more money for extra work. 😮‍💨😑😑😑