Sadly, this is probably true. I still use my phone as a communications device but it's slowly getting harder and harder to use like that. Google (and Apple although I've not used it much other than to try when Google first broke always on VPN and discovered that Apple has the same problem without the option of a custom rom) are focused on tracking and advertisment delivery (AKA money extraction).
I use always on VPN (to a private server), that way there's no information in my IP about where I am, everything
App authors are under no obligation to support rooted phones and if they deal with your data they probably wont on security grounds.
As for phones becoming harder to use for communication, no idea wtf you're talking about. Calls, sms and email work fine for me. Dont use WhatsApp because I dont want Zuckerberg having my data. Kind of ironic you run a rooted phone and use vpns yet also use meta.
A lot of "ideas people" these days really have the same idea "Something.. it doesn't matter what it is really, whatever... that will make me enourmously rich" and investors love that idea and give them money because they'll get rich too, right? And they do because there's a greater fool investor who will buy their shares!
The real idea is making a ton of money, not in actually doing anything.
Full self driving is one of these things, I've never heard of anyone who is excited about it besides investors. A lot
Sadly, this is probably true. I still use my phone as a communications device but it's slowly getting harder and harder to use like that. Google (and Apple although I've not used it much other than to try when Google first broke always on VPN and discovered that Apple has the same problem without the option of a custom rom) are focused on tracking and advertisment delivery (AKA money extraction).
I use always on VPN (to a private server), that way there's no information in my IP about where I am, everything
App authors are under no obligation to support rooted phones and if they deal with your data they probably wont on security grounds.
As for phones becoming harder to use for communication, no idea wtf you're talking about. Calls, sms and email work fine for me. Dont use WhatsApp because I dont want Zuckerberg having my data. Kind of ironic you run a rooted phone and use vpns yet also use meta.
A lot of "ideas people" these days really have the same idea "Something.. it doesn't matter what it is really, whatever... that will make me enourmously rich" and investors love that idea and give them money because they'll get rich too, right? And they do because there's a greater fool investor who will buy their shares!
The real idea is making a ton of money, not in actually doing anything.
Full self driving is one of these things, I've never heard of anyone who is excited about it besides investors. A lot
unclear what part of the experience is so badly broken in the first place, that gets solved through using the OS instead of apps.
The part where the OS manufacturer does not have a monopoly in all of the use cases of a smartphone.