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> Expected to have, engage with and be active on a smartphone And not just any smartphone: a smartphone controlled by Apple or Google. Further cementing their
by ryukafalz 6y ago
> Expected to have, engage with and be active on a smartphone
And not just any smartphone: a smartphone controlled by Apple or Google. Further cementing their influence over society.
- wil421 6y agoWould it have been any better if Nokia and Blackberry had dominated the market?
- klmadfejno 6y agoIt would have been, at least to some degree, better if Nokia, Blackberry, Apple, and Google had dominated the market instead of Apple and Google.
- ryukafalz 6y agoNot particularly, if that just means you're beholden to those companies instead. My issue is not that you need to be using Android in general for example (base Android is FOSS, so the user can in principle have full control over their device), but that often for these things you need to be using Android with Google services, with all the tracking and such that entails.