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To: bitt

I don’t own an apple because I don’t care for them. I find them confusing. But my complaint with ALL phones is in being forced to utilize theìr stuff. I want to see phones like computers where you can delete what you don’t want including the entire operating system, and put something else.

I hate it that you can’t delete samsung browser or facebook.

Some phones can be rooted, but the new operating system frequently runs into problems with utilizing hardware. Like not being able to text or make phone calls, or hear sound. But not all phones can be rooted. And then, the process is so delicate and persnickity.

It took years for developers to figure out how root a $50 ZTE.

We pay for the hardware, it belongs to us. Like any computer, we should be able to put on and remove any software on our devices.

I have an old laptop...well over 7 years old, that I dumped windows on and replaced it with linux giving that slow beast new pep and new life.

How about hardware drivers? Many won’t release them to linux so that you can operate your computer with something other than windows.

Those are the kinds of issues that need correction.


73 posted on 03/21/2024 10:16:49 AM PDT by PrairieLady2 (USA: Land of the free, Because of the Brave.)
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To: PrairieLady2
Those are the kinds of issues that need correction.

Why? It’s a free market. Buy a product that offers those features you want, do not buy a product that does not have them. Do not buy one that doesn’t and then complain when it doesn’t and expect all other consumers to have to kowtow to your desires, accepting a less secure device, merely so YOU can have an open, freely mutable device.

102 posted on 03/21/2024 12:27:16 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigots!)
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