Not according to media companies...

Why does innovation mean companies can steal material and think they can get away with it

Where as the rest of us would be bankrupted and seen some jail time.

All packed on heavy shelving in my shed.Not in any shape or for for display purposes
Goes from calculator sized one with Basic installed though to a PDP11/23
Tons of manuals / books/ etc to go with them

HOWEVER...
If a Mac can save someone 1 hour a week in time because it works better for them, and their time is worth $100/hr, that comes out to be $5200 a year in increased productivity.

If Linux does the same for you, 100% go for it, likewise Windows.

The most expensive part of the computer is the person sitting at the keyboard.

I actually have about 400 old 8bit computers, so any programming is done in assembler.
6800, 8080/8085 , Z80, 68HC11, 6502 and the various variants of these models.

eliminate net carbon emissions from its U.S. operations by 2040....so they will just do all the "dirty stufff" across the border ?

Wehn promises are very specific is just means they will be gaming the system

Seems like China as not as dependant on US technology as the US thought

Try the European system of treating criminals as human beings, not as a profit making workforce.
Put efforts into rehabilitation rather than being highly punitive

You currently have the system you want

There we go, no ones freedom harmed.

YOU don't understand freedom. You think your world view is the only correct one and want to impose that on everyone else.
You actually want anarchy, not freedom. You want to do what ever the hell you like with zero restrictions, that is anarchy.
The alternative is laws, social norms, and other restrictions which all remove "freedom" from someone

The kind of paranoid "freedom" you are wanting exists in the back blocks of nowhere with no internet and no cellphone, with probably a very large amount of tin foil.
There lots of countries that are far more free than the USA, I happen to live in one.

That research proves that the bell curve is alive and well, and applies to everything involving nature, human behaviour being one of them.
The people at the other end of the bell curve are also problematic

You need some more tin foil dues, better make it a couple of layers.

Well DUH, then that is not the product for you. That does not make it anti freedom, it's simply another choice in the market.

You ever see all the bitching about needing ID to prove you are over x age on the internet and everyone is saying "Parental responsibility" , so someone makes a device that helps parents do exactly that and you start bitching about "muh freedumb"

Then you go along and list a whole pile of BS sites that no kid is actually going to use their phone for....government web sites...ROTFLMAO.
And guess what, you can still supply your kids what ever the Fk you like.

You have got to be American...MAGA too ????

Good choice for kids then.
Ugly phones won't get stolen as often as high end phones.
Tracking for kids is good too

Not seeing a downside for the intended segment of the market.

Ah history is littered with the vast majority not stepping too far out of line, and what are they going to do, magic up the money, steal the money to buy something different, then who pays for the contract ?
This is not stealing a beer, this is an ongoing cost, and its a large enough cost it will be seen.

Your fairy tale why it won't work is only true for a small group.
I see you are posting as a coward though, you scared your PDF behaviour is going to be made harder ?

Anti-freedom ?
If you don't like it, don't buy it there are a ton of alternative

Be a great phone to give kids though, you know that parental responsibility thing where they can keep kids away from the BS.