• Zak@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    The whole tech world saw Microsoft Palladium as a nightmare scenario, but was quiet ten years later when Apple and Google did the same thing to our phones. That was a mistake.

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      7 days ago

      Maybe everyone was just OK with mobile devices being locked down heavily from the start, and now it’s more or less the same level for most

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        7 days ago

        We had several years of Android that mostly wasn’t. Now it’s hard work to get Android that isn’t.