Comment by godelski

  > Moreover, in my opinion, by buying Google phones you're feeding Google, and I, personally, would like to avoid that.

I bought an iPhone based on that very decision. TBH, I regret it. The ecosystem is so locked down that I can't even sync my photos to my NAS without a hacky constantly breaking shortcut, building my own app, or paying for an app. Just to replace a small <50 line bash script that could do more than either the shortcut or any paid app I know. I'm constantly battling my phone.

That would all be worth it, but it's been a few years and Google did all the shitty stuff I was protesting anyways and Apple is getting worse.

I'm hoping we get those moto phones with graphene pre installed so I can actually send the right market signal. But what's fucked up these days is you can't send the right market signal. Meanwhile I talk about fixing shit at work and my coworkers ask "what's the value" or say "there probably isn't any money in doing that". Even for problems they are one liner fixes and that they agree we spent more time arguing over than it would be to fix it. I don't think it's a top down problem, it's a bottom up. Those are much harder to solve