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Comment by Aperocky

19 days ago

It only matters if you treat phones as a development environment.

It's tempting to have full control over everything OSS style, but the reality is you can only tenably have that for very specific parts of life.

i wanted my phone to be more than just a kiosk though. thank fuck desktop never ended up in this mess

  • The irony is that our phones are unbelievably powerful and run laps around computers from just 5-10 years ago, but then we use them as locked-down glorified web views and advertisement deliverers.

    Or, as you say, kiosks.

Why? I have the freedom to fix or modify most things I own. What makes phones so special that it justifies licking the boot of some techbro billionaires?