Noose keeps tightening, the war on General Purpose Computing, the war against users owning devices intensifies. How utterly fallen.

We'll see what happens with the proposed ADB changes. Lots of no one asking for this, lots of people describing how badly their phone use will be greviously impacted, and seemingly very little discussion/engagement/justification. Maybe they'll fire the bullet anyways. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/526109803

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mayama 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I said the same thing about waiting for 24hrs before being able to use adb to install apps. About 24hrs being not a big blocker and that it was good for security. It's all about boiling the frog slowly, 24hrs is the start and then they'll add more restrictions once users accept that. Ultimately goog would like to have the system as much locked down as apple or even more.

	▲	gruez 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>I said the same thing about waiting for 24hrs before being able to use adb to install apps. I thought it was 24 hours OR use adb?

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felooboolooomba 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You will own nothing and you'll be happy.

	▲	II2II 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Maybe they're right, albeit for all the wrong reasons. Perhaps the problem is our desire to have everything, no matter what the compromises are. Perhaps the problem is our inability to say, I'm going to go with product X even though it lacks Y because we actually own X. There is virtually no incentive for competition to pop up in such an environment since established companies have a lead of years, decades if you consider the size of the established companies, so consumers will follow their lead. I don't mean to suggest that buying alternatives is a solution to the problem as a whole, but doing so may allow enough niche products to survive to give those of us who are interested in alternatives and alternative to choose from.
	▲	type0 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You, too, will love Big Brother