Survey: Europeans prefer businesses that don’t use US tech
15h 52m ago by piefed.ca/u/Sunshine in buyeuropean@feddit.uk from proton.me
We asked Europeans what they think of US tech dominating European businesses and they’re not happy: Find out what they say needs to change.
If only Linux phones became viable.
There's the Jolla phone, that one runs on Sailfish OS.
Hardware and OS are there, and that’s a solid foundation to build on. A proper software ecosystem is still required to make the phone a viable daily driver.
For example, how do I use public transport if my phone isn’t compatible with the app? Should I just start carrying a physical card with me like it’s 2005? What about when I buy and sell used stuff, and everyone is using a local payment app that only runs on iOS and Android? Maybe I’ll just use cash like it’s the 1980s. The more you look, the more problems you’ll find.
Now don’t get me wrong, I would love to ditch American big tech today, but the alternative needs to be viable. Even barely viable would do.
Web Apps work great, and as has been mentioned, you can run android apps through waydroid.
Writing this from a postmarketOS linux phone which I've been daily driving for a couple of weeks already.
Woah, that works reliably? Have you hit any major issues so far?
Yeah, it works reliably on a Oneplus 6T with Phosh.
Everything works, I thought I'd have to rely on waydroid a lot, but I've managed to find native alternatives or web apps that work fine. So waydroid just sits there unused in case one day I need some android app for an event or something.
That said, it's not ready for a normie user yet, due to lack of apps and general polish. Also the camera, while it works, lacks autofocus and the quality is pretty bad, you can use it to read QRs at least.
You can run Android apps via Waydroid. And there are ways to run the apps seamlesly, without needing to open waydroid -Droidian does this for example (I had unfortunately some tech issues with Droidian so didn't test it much.
The already mentioned SailfishOS should have something that allows seamless Android app integration as well.
There is still the issue of some apps not working on deGoogled Android though, Waydroid basically runs LineageOS if I'm not mistaken. I assume microG would be possible but I have yet to try it.
On waydroid there's even an option to download a version of Lineage with full on google apps, haven't tried it because I don't use them. But the Google integrity api will always be a problem for any app that requires it
I use a physical card and keep a switched off iPhone with me in case.
You can’t avoid sacrifice, you only get the choice of where it comes from.
Yeah, that’s true. There will be sacrifices either way.
Fair phone is Dutch though. So it's half way there. There are other operating systems you can run on it too.
That’s cool. Does it run Linux too?
I'm from the US and also prefer businesses that don't use US tech. It's much easier to avoid now that I'm in Sweden, slowly shifting things to more local solutions
Good on you! US is kinda going down a bad path sadly. Although big tech has had way too much influence there for a while
No shit Sherlock Proton.
This reminds me of a different study like 10 years ago were most European companies said they would rather produce in Europe only to proceed to keep producing in China. It's not bad that the companies are open to it, the question just is what is more lucrative
I wonder how many Irish were surveyed and what they think. We are unfortunately too Americanised in terms of consumerism and many still buy from Amazon.
They do claim to prefer them.