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>>kotaKa+(OP)
They have the ecosystem by the balls. Phone manufacturers in recent years have been making unlocking & modifying their devices more and more difficult, google and app developers have been cracking down harder on modded devices by implementing TPM equivalents in the hardware to sign and verify that your system is a google-appproved one, and alternatives still are decades behind in terms of app ecosystem.

I think they might just get away with it.

>>mid-ki+tz
> and alternatives still are decades behind in terms of app ecosystem.

That's if they're available at all. In my country, only cell phones certified by the telecommunications government agency (ANATEL) can be imported, so the alternatives (Jolla, PinePhone, Fairphone) simply don't exist.

>>cesarb+iJ
If you don't mind sharing, which country is that?

>>Spaghe+KJ
It takes less time to search and find that Anatel is the Brazilian telecom agency than it does to type that comment.

They do marvellous things like mandate weird Brazilian Android games on the phone I bought in Brazil.

>>Y_Y+1L
It's incredibly obnoxious when people type "in my country" as if we're all supposed to just... know where they live. It's also incredibly common. Why do people do this?

>>ripdog+7M
Image asking someone where they’re from only to be told a US state, and only the state.

>>_aavaa+yO
Asking where somebody's from and having them respond with the state is not unreasonable -- you can already tell they’re American from the accent. The US is huge, about half of its states have more land area than half of the countries in the world. Asking where someone is from and receiving "the US" in response is about as informative as someone from Europe replying "Europe". Like yeah, obviously, I could tell by your accent, but where in Europe?