This is going to be like a dam breaking. A small trickle of privacy-conscious developers will put cracks in the wall, and once there's a tiny opening, people who are privacy-conscious-if-convenient will follow through, expanding the hole, and then, the flood of people who want true freedom on their devices (for a multitude of different reasons) will find that hole purely by random and pour through, destroying market share and revolutionizing the mobile market. And little secret sneak peek: Corporations will notice this and align themselves with it, seeking profit. It's going to be glorious.

We're already at a point where smartphones have reached hardware stagnation, and white-labeled devices are coming. There will be no 6G. Smartphones and laptops are converging. The idea that a computer that happens to be smaller than most gives a random company the right or ability to build a wall around it and collect a tax is going to look, in retrospect, really silly.