Comment by beeflet
1 month ago
Do we need the second option to exist? The world is dangerous place. If you can't figure out a computer perhaps you're just unfit to participate in the modern economy.
The existence of locked-down hardware eliminates the feasibility of open hardware through network effects. That is what is happening now.
You realize you’re discounting 98% of the world’s population, right?
I think that the majority of the population can figure out how to stop installing software from untrustworthy sources, seeing as that was pretty much the norm 20 years ago.
Everyone else can put on their loincloths and go back to living in flinstones-esque rock huts.
I think you’re mistaken, assuming that you’re even serious.
I think you just made up that number.
I did! You’re welcome to make your own estimate of how many people are able to correctly judge when snd what software is safe to install on their phone.
98% of the world population is rooting their phone and installing unsigned binaries? Really?
Are you sure you maybe don't have this the complete opposite way around?
I don’t know what you think I wrote, but I wrote that comment about discounting 98% as a reply to:
> If you can't figure out a computer perhaps you're just unfit to participate in the modern economy.
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