That’s about it, it’s almost always laying unused on it’s fixed spot. It has the smallest available subscription, as 0 min and 0 MB is a tad to low for me.
My main devices are my tablets, used for gaming and reading.
CSR Racing 2
Discord
Liftoff
World of tanks Blitz
World of warships blitz
Business calendar 2
OpenVPN for Android
2 local news apps
When I look at it, I don’t even reach 10 used apps, let alone most used apps. (unless I combine, and then barely) And I installed Lineage on all with the smallest gapps set I could install without loosing store access.
There is no point disabling the google app when the rest of the phone runs on Google services, and the rest of the google apps. The tracking will happen regardless. If you don’t want to be tracked by them, you need a de-googled version of Android, that doesn’t run their apps, or their services. I’m currently using /e/ OS, an Android de-googled fork, by Murena: murena.com on an older Motorola G7 Plus. No google apps, and I make a point of not installing any popular app that depends on google’s services. I only use open source apps found on the f-droid open source store. Yes, that means that you won’t have games, or FB or IG, or twitter (unless you use them via the browser). But I don’t need any of that. I now only use fediverse open source apps, plus the basic phone apps found on the Murena eOS, like email and notes.
Google’s inability to stick with something despite its flaws and working on making it better over time, but instead constantly scrapping and renaming services is why I don’t bother investing in any of their experimental projects. Why should anybody waste their time getting used to something if google is just gonna ditch it after a while.
We can’t even get to a point where we have 3rd party apps supporting RCS on Android. I don’t really trust Google’s ability to deliver on and continue to support new products.
If it’s anything like Boost for Reddit was, it’s unnoticeable. Every 20 or so posts you’ll see an ad and just scroll past, no animations or sound. I think I recall seeing a bottom banner? Any other Boost users confirm? I really just ignored it so I can’t recall.
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