I’ve always preferred Android phones to iOS since college, when I’d spend hours designing Zooper Widgets on a Galaxy S4 to create a good-looking setup limited only by my imagination, the app’s features, and device battery life. Until very recently, the OS wasn’t a pain point. It was only when I tried unlocking the bootloader on a Xiaomi phone around 2020 that I realized how c**bersome it was to email the company and wait. For power users, the ability to compile an open-source tool, host it on a personal server, and install it on a daily driver without asking a massive corporation for permission seems fundamental to their digital rights.