There's something about the colors that made me fell ill to my stomach. The rose color, it's just too much Apple. And I like my rose colored iPhone. What next, Apple t-shirts? How much and how large Apple branding are we expected to flout?
At least the iPods are rather small and the phone fits in the pocket.
I thought the text looked almost legible. (I.e. Germanic.) But it was just an illusion because scratching in birch naturally will look rune like. Apparently Onfim used Cyrillic letters, but spoke a Germanic language. So my wrong guess was still sort of right but by accident. :-D
I agree with everything you said and still I kind of love it. I get to live in a world where sci-fi props are driving on the streets like it's normal. And it's electric. The current times are weird as hell, but it's a relief when the times are comically weird.
I almost laughed out loud, I love the cybertruck but man it's so blatant. It feels like someone just blurted out a hilarious joke and you want to laugh out loud but you kind of glance at those next to you to see "is this ok with you people"?
Everything you said rings true, except the part about proprietary license. That's orthogonal to enforcing updates. That is a contractual issue, not a licensing issue.
Google could for instance not allow the manufacturer to connect to their Google Play store unless the manufacturer played ball.
But where does this all put us? We are OK with crap, insecure devices being shoved all over the markets? What can be done.
"Most device manufacturers do not provide updates for Android on time"
Only because Google lets the device manufacturers off the hook. It's a problem of Googles own invention. Trading away customer security for market share.
Adding: very successfully too, this isn't the first time I hear how you should almost feel sorry for Google that they have to put so much into google services instead of Android, all because of the evil device manufacturers! Nothing can be done no... wrings hands
Maybe it will change a little but now that Huawei happened.
An iOS device tracks a lot of what you do, especially if you don't opt out of anything iCloud. But the bulk of the tracking is done by one "evil" corporation, who takes the majority of its money from selling devices.
With a normal Android device, you are tracked every step of the way, by apps, by Google, by Samsung and their awful software quality or by random Chinese entities.
If you don't spend a lot of time, an iOS device is the lesser evil when it comes to tracking. An iOS device with automatic app updates turned off, no iCloud, and where you say no to most apps asking for permissions on first run, is pretty locked down.
There are downsides, of course. It's kind of sad that you can't buy a mobile device which is just a network node by default, not a spying machine by default.