Important point made in that article:
This freedom [with Purism] allows you to load (not even ‘sideload’) whatever applications you would like
The very existence of the term “sideload” reveals that something is rotten in Android-world.
Meh, all Palantir and NSO Group need to do is get “verified”, if not done already.
That depends on the “price” that is paid to be “verified”.
They want all developers to register and hand over things like their legal name, address, and possibly government ID.
For large software development companies, it’s probably not an obstacle.
For small-time developers, the above may be completely unacceptable.
Not to mention that by definition, Google, the gatekeeper, makes the rules and can extend the requirements in the future. So, as a developer, big or small, if you go all in with Android-world, you are submitting to Google and accepting whatever Google’s requirements are, now and in the future.
Apple is further down this road. We have seen both civil legal action and the regulators circling. At the same time, Google has its own legal problems with the regulators and it is hard to see the above as helpful in that regard.
The grim future for LineageOS and custom Android ROMs
quote:”Because the Android phone makers now have to offer longer support for their phones, they are being pushed toward a business model based on the collection of users’ personal data that is used for targeted advertising and the training of AI. While the old business model based on hardware sales and planned obsolescence was horrible for the environment, the new business model is going to be horrible in terms of personal privacy.”
It is simple game theory AKA follow the money in this case. If you don’t understand game theory now is already too late to understand why the MBAs are doing the bad behaviors they do, but at least begin to catch up!
Yeah, I’m in a game theory group, but it mostly applies to wargaming. But political confrontation (Policon) is also a topic. Some of my buddies there have published books.
Recently we were disussing rationality in opponent analysis.
If you realize that game theory is the bottom floor of all economics whether it is the evolution of aerobic bacteria, the grass-rabbit-fox system, The UK+Malay government vs insurgency in Malaysia, or Facebook using psych PhDs to encourage and exploit rage in world society engagement in society it ends up all being economics often with eye-minutes, local political power, or energy and protein being the currency, and economics is game theory.
Why don’t people dance in public so much anymore except for the most extroverted tic-tockers? Because of the game theory results of a hyper surveillance society where you know your dorky dancing will end up on someone’s social media because everyone has a networked video camera 24/7 now, you get fined in privacy points. The economics of embarrassment and an internet who never forgets, but those tick-tock dancers are inversely seeking to collect their eye-minutes of internet-fame.
Why the ad hominem attack here? When and where have I ever danced?
Some thanks for complementing your prior post.
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General comment to the whole audience, not an attack at all on anything you have said, stream of consciousness. Guess it is the economy of saying whatever I feel like in my posts and sometimes not staying laser focused on the exact topic.
the facebook/tik-tok comment though is directly related to eroding the rationality of actors in order to extract profit, diverting motivation form what actually benifits the actors in the system.
I inferred too much meaning in the 2nd person pronouns below my post. No harm then.
I think that game theory may explain the competition between Samsung and Google to provide more years of support for their phones. However, Samsung decided to screw its Galaxy users by locking the bootloader and pressuring customers to share their personal data for surveillance capitalism (as Shoshana Zuboff calls it), whereas Google has generally respected the wishes of Pixel buyers. The rest of the mobile phone brands have to decide whether to match Google and Samsung or not, so it isn’t game theory when they already know what the competition will do.
Hi amosbatto,
no they fight for marked sharing. It shifted with A.I. and training Data because daily telemetry and out rolling A.I. individual sharing butlers or better computer devices with individuality sharing a relation to some human with a shared past will not likely dropped in the future. This restrictions are likely for users not to use an unofficial Google device with less data collection.
Linux and rooted Androids are only allowed to used by rich individuals knowing what are they doing.
Interestingly I had some contact back when Nokia owned Vertu a luxury phone line with mixed fine wood, leather,and exotic metal construction, they were mostly dumb phones but had a direct contact button for the expensive Vertu Concierge service. Instant access to whatever you want human commands to a human servant who had your megabuck credit canr and could have a plane, chef, chateau, driver, or just about any luxury service magically appear. The shmancy phone was trying to position itself as a Rollex like possession but the real thing they were selling was near-zero friction access to servant care 24/7. Nearly all of the handsets were V90 based, though a few Symbian handsets made it out before Vertu folded… But it seems like it has been reborn several times since then and is around today. Hmmm buzzwords…. quantum encryption and blockchain technology….
Whatever, I still kind of want to get my hands on the titanium and sapphire Vertu N900 Maemo5 prototype, N900 Linux guts and shape unobtanium shell.
biketool, i do not care. Because i am not important. However i would teach follows only about reading, Books and Paper or equal. Like Math and Language. And some new can be born every time. Like computation or math and algebra with some axioms.