A few years ago, Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options from companies like AWS and Azure.

Bucha Bull to me.

  • utopiah@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    FWIW I do have 2 Linux phones and… they work. The problem IMHO is that non-software companies believe THEY can lock or profit their customers via an “app”. If they only provided a Web page instead rather than a mandatory mobile application then it wouldn’t matter so much.

    So, despite have working Linux phones (albeit far from perfect) I’m still relying on a deGoogled Android phone so that I can run mobile “apps” for only a couple of, quite important to me, services.

    To summarize, I don’t think it’s the OS themselves that fuel lock-in but rather apps that require those locked down OSes.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      2 days ago

      The main driver for lock in is hardware. Like I said in my comment

      Only a limited number of models can receive custom roms.