Aral Balkan
So FairPhone are launching the 5th version of their phone and right there on the page (which I won’t link to):
“All of your favorite Google Apps will be right there with you.”
Nothing like a good bit of fair trade, environmentally-friendly surveillance capitalism, eh?
(I spoke with them when they were just starting out. They fully know and understand what #Google’s business model is. They fully understand what #SurveillanceCapitalism is. This is not an oversight; it’s strategy.)
Aral Balkan
And please do not enter my mentions with “but you can install a different operating system on it.”
Statistically speaking, no one does that.
No one buys a car and changes the engine except for car geeks.
(Not to mention the legitimacy an organisation with the stated goals of Waag/FairPhone gives to surveillance capitalism by endorsing Google… I mean, that’s something special that money can’t buy.)
Toni :mastodon:
@aral Mira que iba a comprarme un #FairPhone pronto, ya no lo compro, maldita sea.
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