> He just said "I don't own a smartphone", ignoring the fact that many people become very disadvantaged without one.
I know quite some people who live this way, and are very willing to overcome inconvenient hurdles to avoid having to use such a spying device.
>I know quite some people who live this way, and are very willing to overcome inconvenient hurdles to avoid having to use such a spying device.
This is kind of a lazy approach, and it's a good thing Stallman did not have that attitude towards personal computers.
But it's a bummer that there's no real equivalent for mobile devices. I use an Android device and I already consider it to be more locked down than Windows. Generally more irritating than Windows as well (maybe not Windows 11)
I also use it as little as possible (unfortunately more and more things require it) and try to get the smallest functional (for me) Android devices.
FWIW, I get tempted to switch when my Android starts feeling like it works for Google and not for me. The advantage of the iPhone is that it works for nobody.
Always some new notification to be disabled (or cannot be disabled without ADB). The Play Store "helpfully" refuses to install some software on my phone that doesn't meet the minimum specs or whatever. Can't remove protected applications from phones (such as Facebook on some Samsung phones). For all its talk about being open source, it's certainly always been more locked down than a Windows PC or a Mac.
At least Windows Phone did almost nothing, which was more relaxing lol