Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown

Re:Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lo... by sureMan6 on Friday October 23, 2026 @10:52AM (#50210063)

As I understand they're being pressured into it by governments like the Brazilian government to prevent a widespread form of scam there, but of course they're happy to comply because it means they have more control as well

We'd all be safest in a cage but no one wants to live like that

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Re:Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lo... by wolvoleo on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:08AM (#50210361)

I doubt they care about the Brazilian government. They're not going to lose customers there, the only alternative is iPhones and those are completely unaffordable in Brazil due to their local manufacturing laws. Only the rich few can afford one. They cost about twice as much as anywhere else and this is in a country where people have much less money.

So sanctioning Google means taking the smartphone away from 95% of their population. Which isn't going to happen.

Google is doing this because Google wants to.

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