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NDlurker 8 hours ago

I'm guessing you've never shown up to a foreign country without a phone. First thing I do after I get through customs is find the phone store.

dataflow 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> I'm guessing you've never shown up to a foreign country without a phone. First thing I do after I get through customs is find the phone store.

Indeed I have not. In fact I haven't even heard of people doing this until your comment. And that's before unknown app developers coming into the picture. I assume you do this to avoid border phone searches? And you feel the (ostensibly) security-related mechanisms for the rest of the world to be centered around this use case? Meaning the rest of the world should pay the cost to their own security to cater to this flow?

NDlurker 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I just print out all my stuff and go old school. Pick up a cheap android phone at the airport and go about my business. Not sure why this is uncommon. Maybe I'll switch it up next time and bring my phone loaded up with dick pics.

Why shouldn't people be free to install their preferred software immediately after purchasing a phone? How does it help anyone other than Alphabet shareholders to restrict that?

sam345 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I've never heard of a cheap Android phone at the airport.

NDlurker 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Ok