Not really realistic at all. There’s a market for unlocked devices, and where there’s money, there’ll be a way.
This is only relevant as long as someone is selling hardware with an unlockable bootloader. The scenario where that isn’t the case in a few years is unfortunately realistic.
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
There’s a market for headphone jacks and replaceable batteries too but we all see how that turned out.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
My phone has both of those things though?
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah, mine too, it’s not the fastest and most cutting-edge one, though, maybe that’s what they mean.
Wildmimic@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
the replaceable batteries will be coming back (thanks EU, don't know if it will spill over to the US tho), and regarding the headphone jack there seems less and less market - wireless headphones have started to win out with features like ANC, passthrough and long battery times (i have to charge mine about once a week, and they are not new), on top of getting rid of the cable that annoyed more people than it endeared. You still can use cabled headphones with an adapter, so i don't think it's a catastrophal loss.
Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You sweet summer child. That market is less than 0.1% of the total smartphone market and its continued existence is against the wishes of the oligopoly. Where there’s money, there is a way, but the money is working against us.
boydster@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
The scrolls tell of a new geohot that will come along and jailbreak again to save us all…