Guess their thinking is that Google may not be a monopoly in 3 years, so the rules might not need to apply at that point, or they be reviewed?

At that point I think many would just get a decent powerbank. I’d prefer a larger capacity battery, 7000-10000mah even if the phone is slightly heavier and bigger. Especially for travel.

Spelling mistake in commented notes.

Now I need to watch the two Addams Family films again.

Why do I doubt this.

I personally fucking hate it. But my whole friends group use it for events (bad, birthdays), and messenger chat.

How do you convince ~30 people to switch to something else?

What app do they switch to?

Is it just me or is that more of a hinderance?

Because they risk being bullied or left out. Denying their kid a phone only works if all the parents do it.

Edit: I don’t have a solution; maybe an anti-bullshit law that punishes people from spouting bullshit? (Good luck religious folks!)

But denying a phone may just replace one problem with another.

Is this also how they know which ads to feed you?

I started moving from Firefox to LibreWolf and found a few too many convenient features broke.

I think password and bookmark syncing was too difficult to move away from, as I use them across devices/phone.

Haven’t had time to research alternative methods or practices.

Yeah. Then I’ll fill up my free 15gb quota with garbage OS files, and be prompted to pay a subscription to backup the other 1-2tb of data.

I don’t know nothing

Yes you do, you’ve just used a double negative.

~$171.8 billion revenue last year.

Piece of cake.

Isn’t a cheaper subscription better than no subscription Google?

Audit trail in a corporate environment maybe. Assuming non-Microsoft admins have access to that data, it could be a benefit.

Can’t imagine the risk it introduces though.

And resource usage overhead.

They want this, until Zoom employees start using it.

get caught once, you then just starve?

Maybe they send you to Australia again?

The world hasn’t changed has it.

How’s it pay to win though?

Can’t I can unlock those same operators with renown?

Aren’t older operators still better for this and that?

Same reason for switching every other app to 64-bit I suppose; logical evolution.

I absolutely don’t need to though. Especially for something light weight like a music player.

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