Maybe lets not try to pretend that it is just about the costs shall we? I bet MBAs will cower at the suggestion to put up a paywall from the beginning. Afterall, bait-and-switch is their bread-and-butter.

Subscriptions weren’t the norm when we actually paid for something and got the full product. The cost to run things didn’t suddenly become a factor just now.

Only thing that changed: greed of businesses, execs, shareholders.

No need to convince anyone. Trump presidency ensures their will is implemented.

When meta abuses entire countries and skirts regulations… i think a fucking $25 meal card is just petty bullshit.

Stop licking corporate boots.

If you have to defer to the law as justification for doing something purely selfish… then people will judge you to be an asshole.

Edit: Not you personally.

Its quite simple really: if you want profits then you should get it honestly. Otherwise you don’t deserve the profits.

Have a lot to say =/= have all to say.

Like if your local library got a copy of Book X and then when someone wanted to borrow it they just copied it right there and let you keep the copy.

That’s how it works in the rest of the world.

One of the reasons I am an atheist. I mean what was God thinking making these morons?

Logitech… the company whose 150 dollar mouse have double click issues months into the purchase?

Feels like sam secretly wishes this to be true

Userbenchmark spotted…

Protection with taxpayer money for war profiteering from the deaths of brown people… I am sure there will be people who will say “you shouldn’t be threatened with violence for anything” but this woman and many MPs have already inflicted terror and violence on others indirectly from the comfort of their homes and parliament.

Its convenient. Not everyone wants to waste their life centering divs you know

There is a summary bot that is usually the 1 comment on any article posts. Not sure why it did not appear for this.

Hey don’t pretend that you didn’t migrate as well.

Hey but that wouldn’t make money to companies like google ot samsung.

Your smartphone is itself a security hole. It has 10+ sensors on it nowadays and who knows how many apps lying about their privacy promises.

There’s no such thing as perfect security… unless your application is trivial and doesn’t do very much. Android is designed to collect data from the dozen plus sensors on your phone in order to get money from app vendors to push ads.

Android as a system has too many moving parts. You not only have to worry about various device manufacturers compiling their own versions of AOSP, you have to worry about how manufacturers package unremovable apps like facebook, candy crush, etc.

The backdoor is actually the front door… and it is app vendors who are actually the customers… not the phone owners.

The main reason smartphones took off is that business people were salivating at an always on, always listening device with 10+ sensors collecting data on this whole world. And we pay for the privilege.

Android has to be designed to collect data and show you ads. Is it really surprising that security here is just security against free access to this data from outsiders… and not caring about your security?

Hey I was just trying to make a joke… but looks like I didn’t consider the wording too carefully.