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Being able to curate the lockscreen myself is useful - next appointment, or weather data, or whatever. But ads? No fucking way. Of course, realistically this w
by ubermonkey 4y ago
Being able to curate the lockscreen myself is useful - next appointment, or weather data, or whatever. But ads? No fucking way.
Of course, realistically this will creep in at the low end almost immediately. Cheap Android handsets will have this baked in. Nicer ones will have an option to disable it.
Or we might see the Kindle model -- you can get a base model Kindle for $89, if you don't mind lockscreen ads; if you hate the idea, an ad-free version of the same device is $109.
- smoldesu 4y agoFWIW, this is why nobody ought to buy a phone where they can't replace the OS when the first-party manufacturer goes crazy.
- ubermonkey 4y agoOr, alternately, buy from a vendor with a well-established hostility to invasive advertising and who views user privacy as a selling point. Sure, Apple could change their behavior on all this, but it doesn't seem likely. Especially if low-end Android gets super super ad-saturated; they'll love to draw the contrast.