Comment by thelastgallon
17 hours ago
Agreed. All parts of a device that we buy must be user replaceable. Phones can have decades of life. After their initial use as a first phone, they become a hand me down for their children, and they can become further hand me downs for people in third world countries or continue to live on as computers that can take on a variety of other roles.
The OS must be user replaceable so we can run what we like. If this is not possible, we should at least be allowed to a run a VM on the phone (we can assume <5% loss of performance).
Silicon lives matter. We must make sure our device has many afterlives until its eventual death (5 decades later).
Back before I got used to Google cancelling all of their projects, I was immensely excited, then disappointed by this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara