Posted on 02/01/2025 9:37:53 AM PST by cuz1961
.. . The real story is what’s being done to lock down Android, and why you’ll need a newer model phone in 12-weeks time...
The other highlight further narrows the gap to iPhone, removing some of the looser restrictions that enabled threats to more easily fester on its ecosystem than Apple’s. “The Play Integrity API," Google says, “allows developers to check if their apps have been tampered with or are running in potentially compromised environments, helping them to prevent abuse like fraud, bots, cheating, and data theft.” The company also notes that “apps using Play integrity features are seeing 80% lower usage from unverified and untrusted sources on average,” and that “over 91% of app installs on the Google Play Store now use the latest protections of Android 13 or newer.”
Those last two stats are critical. Because Google’s Play Integrity API is changing, and for the 750-million-plus users on Android 12 or older, you may need to go buy a new phone if you can’t run a newer OS to keep your apps functioning as now. . ..
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
“Other great features are new and improved user tracking, data harvesting, and ad deliver.”
YOU BET!
“Removing looser restrictions?”They need to add tighter restrictions. Removing restrictions means less restrictive environment. Or bad writing. Writing is not what it used to be. I wonder if AI is going to put hyphens in between numbers and words.
There is no spying on an iPhone unless you turn on services that do that. Apple never “sells” your data, which Google does all the time because that is their business model. Apple sells phones with the promise of maintaining the users privacy, if the user wants that. Apple has gone to court against the US government to maintain this promise.
Guess I will revert to my old flip phone, I can’t use Apple products
I don’t download apps on my android phone , I pay $100 a year and I never use any minutes , I carry the phone for emergencies . I also have a iPhone 8 and the first SE and they still work ,LOL
I don’t know much about IPhones, all I know is he was demonstrating using both android and Apple devices.
What really piques my interest, however, is the Tesla phone. I don’t know when it’s coming out, but it’s supposed to be high-end and give Apple and Android a run for their money. Speaking of money, it’s claimed by Musk and co. to purportedly cost $375. Starlink ready, too.
It’s worth taking a look at when it comes out. Videos on YouTube about it.
So this old lady can ignore this?
These types of activities I save for my Ethernet-wired PC at home which has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi disabled. Nothing is perfectly safe in the computer world, but performing sensitive activities over the airwaves is just increasing the risk.
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i just had to buy a new phone to get my tmobile service....takes 1 year to pay it off and i bought about the cheapest phone they had...
..the others were up to 1000.
i cant afford to keep up with the upgrade update scamola.
and i suspect these huge lengthy “ updates” are actually data mining sessions and aren't updating squat.
Zzzzzzzzz!
Hmmm .... Side bar convo: My Samsung android has done a few system updates in the last 2 months.
Now, I cannot use my camera unless the microphone and “nearby devices/bluetooth” is given permission in the camera app to run when I take a picture of my dog.
Some other changes that are annoying but the camera thing really torqued me.
I put blue tape over all the camera lenses and turned off the permissions. My dog isn’t that photogenic.
you will not need a new phone.
I treat my android phone like it is the most unsecure computing device I have (it probably is)
I do not have a google account so I have very few apps (only the ones I sideloaded from .apk files)
I do not access anything to do with money on my phone
Mostly I use it for phone calls and texts.
I would be afraid to see what kind of dangerous stuff is on most peoples phones
Got my S25 Ultra 3 days ago.
So much info in YouTube videos, already.
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Get a Linux phone”
Not ready for prime time
https://medium.com/@camden.o.b/the-ultimate-linux-phone-guide-28d0cce9929
Link?
“MY $20 land line phones work just fine”
My smart phone saves me money and time every day. It also has a camera.
“FORCED TO SPEND $$$ OVER & OVER AGAIN.”
My S21 Ultra cost $500 after trade in. Used it for four years and just got a $500 trade-in credit on a new S25 Ultra.
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