If they don't included tracking, recording, spying, and advertising, they're premium at this point.
Fixed battery and removal of headphone jack and SD card slots were 1000% anti-consumer practices designed to cost you more money and make your device lifespan as short as possible. I don't see the battery problem going away - why enable your phone to last twice or three times as long when they can just force you to have to buy a new device when the battery is shot? At least we got our card slots and jacks back (mostly).
I am also salty that phones USED to have IR blasters and they don't anymore. IR LEDs cost next to nothing, another feature that was amazing but thrown away to save 5c per unit.
Do it. I dare ya. Keep digging. It's fun watching the hole get deeper while you disappear into the darkness.
Victim complex / projection
I've never seen science try to take away people's rights, let alone thoughts.
I've seen religion do both, though.
This brings them to about mid 90's tech... They'll be able to make microwave ovens, tamagotchis, and a counterfeit N64 that runs a game called "Mushroom Plumber 3D"
Still looking for that backup of that disk with my bitcoin wallet from the early days... sadly probably gone forever.
Telegram added stories not too long ago and I feel the same way about that. It's UI pollution we don't want, and that we didn't ask for, and that serves no real purpose.
Perhaps if the ceo wasn't making like 200m a year, it would show some profits
Don't worry about those bumps in your hood. It's just engine parts pushing into the sheet metal.
But I want a perfect hood
WE SAID DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT
This is all by design. Once they have you/us/them captured again, we're going to take another trip around the "raise prices and squeeze services until it's unsustainable, because shareholder and CEO profit". It has all happened before and it will all happen again.
The cloud is just someone else's computer. The uber is just someone else's car. Streaming is just someone else's media library. They have you right where they want you, dependent on them.
.01 Jiggawats short...
That is a government spy drone that ran out of batteries