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"I believe ZTE was banned by the US government, along with Huawei for doing shady things." The shady things are beeing chinese owned and there is a trade war? Otherwise I heard lots of accusations, but saw no proof of anything.
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We need a law, and that"s coming from a libertarian. If the owner of a hardware device is using it, that person has total control over the device. Nothing can be blocked. Nothing can be hidden. All data must be available in plain language. That owner/user should have the right to inspect and modify everything in the device in plain language. With today's memory / storage capacities and with today's LLMs, that should…
> Nothing can be blocked. Nothing can be hidden. In US/EU there is a law which explicitly forbids complete access to the wifi part of any device. So that you can't modify it's maximum power/frequencies. Any company giving you complete wifi access is criminally liable in US/EU.
Tip; Syncthing is available for Android and is really really good to keep your data distributed. Thought it would kill my battery when I installed it, but it's very well optimized. Even Google Play services drains more battery.
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You prefer totally non-transparent cloud scanning that allows for ad hoc, warrantless, untraceable, personally-targeted scans from anyone who can threaten a big company? I saw client-side scanning as much more transparent and limited. Yes, there could be abuses, but there is not a single possible abuse worse than what is already happening every day with cloud-side scanning.
I don't want any of my data scanned which is why I don't tend to store it in the cloud. If Apple rolled out client side scanning what's to prevent them from extending it to all data on the device, regardless of whether it's synced to iCloud?
Hint: nothing technical
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If Apple releases mid-tier phone after this, they will win the market for sure.
You forgot the other reason. I don't want an IPhone because I prefer to actually own my device (and because Android is overall more secure and I personally care about this).
That's messed up. I have generally preferred Samsung products,too. 10-15 years ago, when I had a lot more free time, I used to put CyanogenMod on my phones and play around with that. Are there any good open source mobile OS around these days?
Lineageos is still here, GrapheneOS and CalyxOS is more updated and presumably more secure and private, but Graphene only supports Pixels and Calyx supports Pixels plus some other models. Pixels should be your best bet in terms of ROM compatibility.
I would get some Linux phone even if they aren't perfect, but I have no cell reception, and rely on Wifi calling, which seems to be some proprietary thing that only Apple and Google are able to implement.
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You forgot the other reason. I don't want an IPhone because I prefer to actually own my device (and because Android is overall more secure and I personally care about this).
> I prefer to actually own my device What do you mean by that? Its an odd take in an article about Android users learning they don't own their device. > and because Android is overall more secure and I personally care about this citation?
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Parent isn’t talking about control. Their comment is off-topic, but correct.
Parent says his prison is prettier, I say they his prison was the first of its kind and others start to copy it.
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Apple has new iPhones for sale at various price points all the way down to the very affordable iPhone SE.
The iPhone SE still starts at 3x the price of a low-tier Samsung smartphone. Example from Poland: https://mediamarkt.pl/telefony-i-smartfony/smartfon-apple-ip... https://mediamarkt.pl/telefony-i-smartfony/smartfon-samsung-...