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Re:There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get... by de_keyboard on Thursday August 12, 2021 @01:53PM (#28159329)
What about smartphones? Increasingly, an up-to-date and unmodified Android or Apple smartphone is required to interface with the modern world. Want to use a Linux phone? Sorry no banking app for you. No check-in for flights. So you either need to accept massive day-to-day inconvenience or subject yourself to surveillance and control. This era of computing is a disaster from the perspective or user-control. You know what, Stallman was right.
Re:There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get... by logifail on Thursday August 12, 2021 @02:46PM (#28159953)
> Increasingly, an up-to-date and unmodified Android or Apple smartphone is required to interface with the modern world. Want to use a Linux phone? Sorry no banking app for you. No check-in for flights. So you either need to accept massive day-to-day inconvenience or subject yourself to surveillance and control.

On my desk right now there are five Android phones (two of them don't even have SIM cards). I use them for different things. I wouldn't dream of signing in to all of them with the same Google account.

If you want to retain some degree of privacy and use Instagram on your phone, you need to get another phone for that.

They're cheap.

Re:There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get... by mindslight on Thursday August 12, 2021 @02:55PM (#28160050)
First, having a Free computer doesn't prevent you from also having a corporate terminal. Devices are inexpensive these days, especially used devices that can have Free software installed onto them.

Second, phones are a terrible platform for privacy preserving technologies, both currently (mobile OS dumpster fire) and intrinsically (lower resources, poor input, well-known network identity). Anybody who cares about digital privacy should have a real computer laptop/desktop that they use for the bulk of their activities.

Re:There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get... by hypothesis on Thursday August 12, 2021 @02:13PM (#28159565)
And that is why having an open web is important.

Not being locked-in into apps is critical nowadays.

Re:There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get... by cudgy on Thursday August 12, 2021 @02:32PM (#28159779)
How does open web make it better? Then your data is swimming on a server outside your device on an unknown operating system with god knows who looking at it.

Someone earlier astutely stated the metaphor “the thin edge of the wedge”; the movement to the “cloud” via the open web over the last decade was the thinnest part of the wedge.

Re:There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get... by hypothesis on Thursday August 12, 2021 @03:03PM (#28160144)
Without one we would be forced to use apps on a locked down OS and unable to switch to any up-and-coming alternatives at all.

Even to the extent web is open today, I’m able to run Linux on all my PCs/laptops and not to have an extra one to run proprietary OS in order to participate in modern life.

Re:There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get... by mdoms on Thursday August 12, 2021 @02:23PM (#28159691)
My bank has a customer portal website. My airline has a check-in website. Using a website instead of an app is a minor inconvenience, certainly not a "massive" one.