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It is time to get the government to recognise mobile phones as being full fledged computers and which require the same consumer protections. Just because you ar
by pkphilip 1y ago
It is time to get the government to recognise mobile phones as being full fledged computers and which require the same consumer protections. Just because you are carrying it around all the time doesn't make it any less a computer.
- CharlesW 1y ago> It is time to get the government to recognise mobile phones as being full fledged computers… Mobile phones are not, and have never been, general-purpose computers. If you think they're locked down now, you'd be completely astounded to learn what the industry was like pre-iPhone/pre-App Store.
- homebrewer 1y agoI was hacking on firmware for the couple Sony Ericssons I had, replacing major system components like sound drivers with no problems. Installing third-party applications without first asking for permission from your master was normal and expected. They were about as open as current Android is, and probably more so than Android in another five years.
- pkphilip 1y agoWhat is a "general purpose" computer? who decides what is "general" or not? what can you not do in a mobile phone which you cannot do on a regular desktop / laptop computer? If anything, a mobile phone has MORE capabilities - such as GPS, the gyro etc. So it is a superset of features of a "general" computer like a desktop or a laptop and not a subset of features making it a "non-general" limited computer.
- fsflover 1y agoOpenmoko, Nokia N900, Pinephone, Librem 5 enter the chat.