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Google onboarding on Android...
The key difference is that there are credible alternatives in the PC OS space. If I could ditch Android/iOS without major pain, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
and it can be skipped. for now.
Try GrapheneOS
Root and use custom roms.
Only works if your device has an unlockable bootloader, and most phones nowadays are completely locked down.
That's the direction that many manufacturers are trying to push PCs as well.
Most but not all. If someone cares THAT much about making a free account and telemetry, a few minutes on XDA won't hurt their schedule.
alas, most models of android phones don't have support from the custom roms that currently exist
If, the roms exist, there's clearly hardware for them....
And what should you suggest we should do with the ones that don't? Bury them all at some landfill?
Well, they were born e-waste, so yea. If the consumer is in middle of the lake of information, but refuses to drink anything but bottled corpo propaganda and dies from dehydration......