Because it's profitable.
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2024
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For the same reason we have every fucking other problem in the world right now.
Capitalism.
You cannot align incentives towards growing the wealth of a microscopic yet astronomically lecherous group of monsters and expect society to not just crumble under the weight.
Basically, because we don't own our devices. We are allowed to use our devices by the good graces of the manufacturers that charge a premium for them.
This really needs to change. I remember the preinstalled app antitrust suit(s) in the early 00s. Those need to happen again, but likely the EU will have to as the US is entering a dark age, and the US will continue to have inferior everything to the rest of the world for the foreseeable future.
We're not. It's 2024.
You mean it'll all magically go *POOF!* come the new year?!? I'll wait until then to set up my new phone, then!
They are a prefect example of I'm a prviliged person who has not suffered so I refuse to believe that the current system causes suffering
This is most prevalent on androids, even stock pixel. As much as I like to shit on apple, they have less bloat on your phone. Of course whatever native app you have on there, you wouldn't able to delete, whereas on android you could delete it if you really wanted to.
Most people aren't - they've given up the fight.
And laptops, desktops, televisions ...
I have a pixel phone with GrapheneOS. My laptop and desktops run Linux. The TV I haven't gotten to, but the options are there as well to have a high quality, yet dumb display.
- buy a laptop/desktop
- boot up windows and setup with fake shit
- download and flash your favourite linux distro
- disable secure boot
- boot from usb.
- ???
- profit!
Most mainline Linux distro work pretty seamlessly with secureboot these days.
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Because people keep buying Xiaomi and Samsung shit that's loaded with crap (at least over here, I understand this varies massively by region).
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It's 2024 though?
Timezones bro
Yep, time zones. Some places are in 2025 already and the US is stuck in 1940.
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The problem is that most phones don't support ROM's like Graphene or Linage, as people installing custom roms is a relic of years past. Next time you get a phone, think about if you want this option for yourself. Also, do keep in mind that some phones have HW backdoors on them, so even installing a stock rom/graphene does not save you from privacy.
They made it very hard to install roms.
There is this orange warning on boot.
Then banking apps don't work.
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That's true. Graphene is majorly Pixel limited, I guess. And even Lineage has a small set of devices when one considers the nos of OEMs and variants they manufacture per year.
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Few people want to pay full price for their phone.
I mean, yeah, but there's also manufacturer bloatware. This model year, Samsung in particular has outdone themselves with the implementation of their AI chatbot nearly zero percent of their customer base wanted.
Because it's profitable to include.
Why would companies care as much about the minor brand value decrease in the eyes of more technical users when they can make more money right now by making things shittier?
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