Screenless smartphones could totally be viable as a product, especially for visually impaired folks.
The problem is only one: PROPRIETARY APPLICATIONS
Could you write a custom and simplified Facebook Messenger client that would allow clear and complete navigation through hardware buttons or vocal commands? Abso-fucking-lutely!
Can you do it without Facebook's approval which will never come? Abso-fucking-lutely not!
Your post is only partially correct. Even with completely open firmware, or at least a documented interface, the biggest roadblock would become be abysmal state of OSS digital image processing. Engineers at major smartphone and camera companies are paid top dollar to improve how the images are processed, this is no laughing matter and is obvious when you compare the image quality from a no-name chinese brand with Samsung or Apple even though they are using the same exact sensors.
FOSS smartphones such as the Pinephone would then need a whole bunch of accelerators to perform such computations because the general purpose CPU would be too slow for that, and image could take seconds to finish processing and get saved in the gallery. But at that point Pinephone itself would not have enough expertise for such a design and everything would crumble.
I already told you this is not what I asked. Your replies are all over the place and I sincerely am not understanding them.
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wow, you edited your whole long form reply and just replaced it with "I'm not a bot"? That's such a misleading and dishonest thing to do for everyone reading these posts from now onwards
You told me human endeavors in which "diversity" (which again, means nothing) fosters innovation.
But that wasn't my question. I asked what kind of diversity fosters innovation, not what kind of innovation is fostered by diversity
Problem is: they can't watch movies in their browser because they can only leech from people who are seeding from a webtorrent client.
Let's say I have a movie I want to let other people stream with their browser. I am obligated to use some javascript horror webtorrent-compatible client. If I already have a seedbox running transmission I simply cannot use that for this purpose, which is a shame
And every time people are advised to keep a local copy. I have a bunch of stuff on an Amazon Glacier account for convenience, but I still keep an HDD in the closet
You should make noise because, unless you signed some particular contract, the code is your intellectual property and it's illegal to just take it away from you.
I bought Stadia and read the contract, I was under no illusion that I could export save files or progress to other platforms. You don't own the games you play, if you cared you'd buy from GoG.
The problem is only one: PROPRIETARY APPLICATIONS
Could you write a custom and simplified Facebook Messenger client that would allow clear and complete navigation through hardware buttons or vocal commands? Abso-fucking-lutely!
Can you do it without Facebook's approval which will never come? Abso-fucking-lutely not!