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Good on Japan. Please create lots of competition, I am utterly FED UP with Apple and Google and bloody American companies ruining all that is fucking decent wit

Good on Japan. Please create lots of competition, I am utterly FED UP with Apple and Google and bloody American companies ruining all that is fucking decent with the world.

toomuchtodo 2y ago
Just gotta keep grinding globally against these orgs. Lobby your representatives.
wepple 2y ago
Because Sony phones were clearly excellent which is why everyone bought them, and made them the success they are today? What exactly do you want out of “lots of competition”?
- alt227 2y ago
  Sorry, I must have missed Sonys OS and App store platform. Please tell me what phones I can see these on?
  - wepple 2y ago
    The Xperia has/had a proprietary Sony-Ericsson OS. But your point is moot anyhow; Sony can’t innovate. So they’ll regulate their way back to awesomeness?
xyst 2y ago
I’m just fed up with subpar and locked down hardware. Give me hardware that I own when I buy it. Fully open it up to the end user. No need to hide or gimp it’s power behind proprietary APIs (ie, Metal, lack of OpenGL).
localfirst 2y ago
I'm not optimistic. Korea's Naver has added zilch to overall consumer choice. None of these countries do software very well Japan included which makes no sense, modern manufacturing and speedrunning was invented there. What's obvious is Japan's extreme care for privacy opting for the security of paper based document storage/retrieval. Also don't like seeing the minting of tech bros that is prevalent in America not really creating value for consumers but wealth for a small group of people.
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seydor 2y ago
For me the worst is that everyone copies them and there is not a single one opting for openness as a selling point. Policies that are objectively batshit insane are now accepted as 'the norm' because they are 'good for shareholders' (but this only works for google + apple)

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Good on Japan. Please create lots of competition, I am utterly FED UP with Apple and Google and bloody American companies ruining all that is fucking decent wit

by WhackyIdeas 2y ago

Good on Japan. Please create lots of competition, I am utterly FED UP with Apple and Google and bloody American companies ruining all that is fucking decent with the world.

toomuchtodo 2y ago
Just gotta keep grinding globally against these orgs. Lobby your representatives.
wepple 2y ago
Because Sony phones were clearly excellent which is why everyone bought them, and made them the success they are today? What exactly do you want out of “lots of competition”?
- alt227 2y ago
  Sorry, I must have missed Sonys OS and App store platform. Please tell me what phones I can see these on?
  - wepple 2y ago
    The Xperia has/had a proprietary Sony-Ericsson OS. But your point is moot anyhow; Sony can’t innovate. So they’ll regulate their way back to awesomeness?
xyst 2y ago
I’m just fed up with subpar and locked down hardware. Give me hardware that I own when I buy it. Fully open it up to the end user. No need to hide or gimp it’s power behind proprietary APIs (ie, Metal, lack of OpenGL).
localfirst 2y ago
I'm not optimistic. Korea's Naver has added zilch to overall consumer choice. None of these countries do software very well Japan included which makes no sense, modern manufacturing and speedrunning was invented there. What's obvious is Japan's extreme care for privacy opting for the security of paper based document storage/retrieval. Also don't like seeing the minting of tech bros that is prevalent in America not really creating value for consumers but wealth for a small group of people.
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seydor 2y ago
For me the worst is that everyone copies them and there is not a single one opting for openness as a selling point. Policies that are objectively batshit insane are now accepted as 'the norm' because they are 'good for shareholders' (but this only works for google + apple)