• Melonpoly@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    This is just an assumption, but I thought the whole point was to make it more difficult for people to switch carriers?

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      9 months ago

      Also because it’s locking another aspect of the device behind software that you do not have control over, which gives carriers and phone manufacturers some new levers to exact control over how and what you do.

      Because evidently we haven’t learned our lesson yet.

      Like when the SD card slots got taken away, and now not only are most phones storage non-expandable, you can’t even use a proper file explorer on Android anymore.