sirlan <( rawr )smartphones suck, for all intents and purposes they're general purpose computers, they're devices with a user operating system where you can install third party binaries for doing various activities from work, to games, to communication, to media creation, and so on
but then phone makes go: nu uh, actually it's an appliance and as such shall have a tightly coupled and controlled hardware/software stack, where we get a final say what you can do or what software can even run on the device you bought and own
for fuck sake, just give me a pocketable computer with a sim card slot, it would literally be less work to not develop a whole custom bespoke environment just to make it harder for people to use the shit they already own
but then phone makes go: nu uh, actually it's an appliance and as such shall have a tightly coupled and controlled hardware/software stack, where we get a final say what you can do or what software can even run on the device you bought and own
for fuck sake, just give me a pocketable computer with a sim card slot, it would literally be less work to not develop a whole custom bespoke environment just to make it harder for people to use the shit they already own
Kevin Karhan 