• DiceTrauma@piefed.socialEnglish
    22·
    3 hours ago

    1. Introduce cutting edge tech to the masses, claiming it will usher in a new era of connection, convenience and utility.

    2. Firmly entrench that tech into every corner of modern society so that most day-to-day activities SUPPOSEDLY cannot be done without it.

    3. Slowly tighten the screws by removing user agency and freedom while raising prices.

    4. Become obscenely wealthy from an entire generation of locked-in consumers who think they have no choice but to submit to your control over their lives.

    5. Wash, rinse and repeat.

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      3 hours ago

      And yet none of my friends and family can see this blatantly right in front of them. Have people gotten stupider ? Its as obvious as the sun being hot.

      • DiceTrauma@piefed.socialEnglish
        6·
        2 hours ago

        It’s that whole frog analogy, where you can slowly boil a frog alive by gradually increasing the temperature by small increments.

        • foo@feddit.uk
          6·
          2 hours ago

          I’m pretty sure that’s a myth, but the analogy is still useful to get the concept across. It simultaneously amuses me and disappoints me that so many humans can be aware of this effect and still not recognise it happening to them, whilst the frogs aren’t actually that stupid and jump out of the water.

      • Addv4@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 hours ago

        Hopefully not coming off as too much of an ass, but normies largely won’t care, as it doesn’t immediately affect them. Knowing it’s a bad thing requires a bit of understanding about an operating system that most people just don’t know or care to learn about.

  • manxu@piefed.socialEnglish
    36·
    4 hours ago

    I don’t want to laugh about this. I am seriously freaking out at the idea of using the built-in apps instead of the open source equivalents. Calculator with Internet access? Camera app with ads before I click? Browser that spies on me no matter what searches I perform? No thank you.

  • yucandu@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Elaborate? Surely there will still be some hidden option to allow me to sideload APK files?

    • Dionysus@leminal.space
      17·
      4 hours ago

      Honestly, iPhone is already there in shittyland. You need to jailbreak to do it, which you can host install GraphineOS or root your android easier for the same effect.

      We need a 3rd primer mobile OS option, but won’t get one since the money always enshittifies these things.

      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        The most annoying part is the number of good mobile OSs we have already lost over the years to these two; Symbian, BB10, Windows Phone, and WebOS come to mind just off the top of my head. Not to mention the projects that have struggled for traction like Mozilla OS and Ubuntu Touch.

        Edit: I misremembered, it was called Firefox OS, not Mozilla OS.

  • trashcroissant@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    5·
    3 hours ago

    Will graphene get fucked by this too? My plan was to switch over in September but I’m not sure if the changes mean graphene will be made useless.

    • illi@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      1 hour ago

      My understanding is that no… not yet anyway. Phones with GrapheneOS are not “verified” Android so you can proceed to install whatever.

      There will be.indirect damage with some devs likely stopping decelopment as their userbase might get smaller still, if they refuse registering with Google.

      And I guess there is a future when Google will start tightening the noose on Android itself, which will likely make alternate Android OSs harder to develop (though I know nothing about these things, I sense this is an option down the line).