it feels like a weird departure from previous eu policies protecting privacy and right to repair… i was really happy when the forced apple to have an alternative store, and forcing phone companies to have a universal charger…
as an american, i was jealous of a lot of these….
forcing a company to lock a phone down more doesn’t make sense with that….
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i guess you can still buy a phone with an unlocked boot loader from america and switch over the sim….
or buy one of them pure linux phones like pinePhone…. but that probably still sucks for non-coders….
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also, incidentally, iPhone and the Pixel have both proven to be difficult for the police to extract information from, probably largely due to full integration of software and hardware…
i wonder if they finally worked out a good back door deal with apple….