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Re:Startup Restructuring 101 by willmadden on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:42PM (#33780212)
People won't buy it because it has a fifth vestigial camera or whatever the latest gimmick is. Smart phones are a commodity at this point.

They'll buy it because 1) they don't want transnational ESG digital hall monitors spying on them and curating what apps they can install, and 2) it would have global cell coverage. That's more than enough to compete with Google and Apple at this point. People are fed up, I think you underestimate just how many people.

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Re:Startup Restructuring 101 by Firmwarrior on Monday November 28, 2022 @05:04PM (#33780516)
There's no way he'll be able to get global cell coverage IMO. Even if he pulled it off, that's a feature for fancy rich people. Most people don't travel regularly.

I don't think the privacy angle is going to help at all either. If anyone actually cared about privacy or control we'd all be using the same weird open source pocket computer as Stallman.

That said, I wish him the best of luck

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