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• boydster@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The scrolls tell of a new geohot that will come along and jailbreak again to save us all…

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• Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not really realistic at all. There’s a market for unlocked devices, and where there’s money, there’ll be a way.

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  • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s a market for headphone jacks and replaceable batteries too but we all see how that turned out.

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    • Wildmimic@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My phone has both of those things though?

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      • Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, mine too, it’s not the fastest and most cutting-edge one, though, maybe that’s what they mean.

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