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I’d like a new post a year from now, telling us how the phone overall has aged. And another after 18 months.
With something like this the resale value tends to tank pretty quickly and becomes difficult to sell.
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The Pixel 2+ have an equivalent to the iPhone's Secure Enclave: https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/titan-m-makes-pixel-3... But honestly, the government will either shoulder-surf your PIN code or make you unlock it with your finger, or just snatch the phone from you while its unlocked. They bought an exploit to unlock the San Bernardino phone, but they only really needed to do that because the owner was dead and…
>make you unlock it with your finger https://www.zdnet.com/article/police-cant-force-us-citizens-... Another ruling: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/05/10/the-u...
https://reason.com/2019/01/15/search-warrants-and-compelled-...
https://observer.com/2019/05/police-force-unlock-phones-nj-s...
My issue remains privacy. I can’t help but feel that every swipe and key I type into an Android will be added to some profile on me.
My issue remains privacy. I can’t help but feel that every swipe and key I type into an Android will be added to some profile on me.
You may already know about this since it comes up a lot on HN but I am keeping an eye on https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ development for this reason.
Not to brag but I'm dying for a low end open smartphone, with the same concept of the raspberry pi.
My issue remains privacy. I can’t help but feel that every swipe and key I type into an Android will be added to some profile on me.
I’d like a new post a year from now, telling us how the phone overall has aged. And another after 18 months.
Another big one is resale value. I can be sure that my iPhone depreciates at give or take AUD$200/year and there will be people that would buy it. With something like this the resale value tends to tank pretty quickly and becomes difficult to sell.
Choosing phones by looking at how much you can make of it a year from now is part of the problem this world faces.
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The Pixel 2+ have an equivalent to the iPhone's Secure Enclave: https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/titan-m-makes-pixel-3... But honestly, the government will either shoulder-surf your PIN code or make you unlock it with your finger, or just snatch the phone from you while its unlocked. They bought an exploit to unlock the San Bernardino phone, but they only really needed to do that because the owner was dead and…
>make you unlock it with your finger https://www.zdnet.com/article/police-cant-force-us-citizens-... Another ruling: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/05/10/the-u...
Wonder why you are so naive and think that they won't do bad things if they are _really_ interested into getting into your phone.
I am not yet ready to replace my iPhoneSE but I'll be going Android as well - and if Google will provide a headphone jack they are in the running, but ONLY if they provide a headphone jack.
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Another big one is resale value. I can be sure that my iPhone depreciates at give or take AUD$200/year and there will be people that would buy it. With something like this the resale value tends to tank pretty quickly and becomes difficult to sell.
Why does this even matter? Resale value is just interesting if you don't plan to use a product to its fullest and maybe till its death. Choosing phones by looking at how much you can make of it a year from now is part of the problem this world faces.
But, erm, this is more about recycling.
Device reuse (and a market for second hand electronics) is actually something beneficial to the world, not something harmful. It affects repair economics.
For what it’s worth I imagine this device’s EOL would be less than an iPhones too, where there is still a market (and software updates) for the five year old iPhone 6.