Luigi Claus is coming for the executive officers of some smartphone manufacturers.
The Samsung A series phone we recently bought in India had lock screen ads. I was gobsmacked. It wasn’t even easy to disable it.
That’s what happens when an advertising company sells phones
Amazon be Like “yo. We offer Discount to do that. Lets fire some people”.
… and that’s why I’ll stick with Pixel devices, thanks.
Not to mine they ain’t. Even if there was no device left without, because then I wouldn’t have one.
Dystopia
We need more Linux phones
We need to just start beating the shit out of marketing people. Just any time you meet someone and find out they’re involved in advertising, punch them in the mouth. Doesn’t matter if they’ve personally done anything to you. They’ve gone too far.
there’s a quiz show on TV in my country. a few days ago they chose some marketing manager. they have dropped out at like the 3rd question, winning nothing. this is rare. Normally I’m cheering for players but I was gleeful for his loss.
Looks at brother
don’t forget, any time you meet him
Excommunicado
Aaaaand there’s the enshittification, just like I expected.
Remember kids - 99% of the time, if it’s too good to be true…
Hell, even when it’s not too good to be true and you already feel ripped off! The audacity of these mfs!
In the near future: You are mandated to carry the Advanced Information Device System at all times. It shows informational content (we call them ads) and tracks your location.
For a small monthly subscription fee you can add a web browser, email, or other applications to go with your AIDS.
Not to my phone they aren’t, get fucked.
Oh, fuck off Nothing, you were to be my next phone! Now I need to find a different European brand which does high-end smartphones. Which means only HMD remains unless something changed in the last few months.
Fair phone 6 running /e/OS is honestly amazing
Completely degoogled ROM, using MicroG to emulate google play services
European Fairphone would never do this, I think. Or just install custom ROM
Please stop copying Microsoft.
We desperately need a phone OS the user can modify at will, by design and not by rooting, and on mainstream hardware.
I know, the argument goes that the only reason phones are so reasonably priced is the upside of upsell for manufacturers. But phones are not “reasonably priced,” they are sold at a large profit and the upsell is just greed.
It won’t happen carriers won’t allow it.
Well, in some countries carriers don’t have a say in that.
they can have the slim modem, they shouldn’t get to know anything about the other parts of the OS
Ubuntu Touch exists and I have it installed on my backup Fairphone 5. In terms of the OS itself, it seems pretty solid and performs well. However it is very spartan in terms of both the interface itself as well as the apps available to interact with the OS in various ways.
It’s a very small team working on it and as far as I can tell they aren’t exactly drowning in funding. I bet if every person that would like to see another OS option donated a cup of coffee amount of money to them every month they would probably have what they want in the next 3-5 years.
I don’t see that happening though. I think most
You think most? But that’s a great suggestion, I’ll check out their funding page.
