It boggles my mind how so many people install alexa, ring, samsung tvs and all the brightly colored google things. Of course they'll buy whatever phone has neat features.
Human nature is human nature, and people want convenience not privacy.
But take it from me - one curmudgeon to another - after you've been hit over the head with ever more audacious privacy policies year after year, this phone is a relief.
I don't mind lowering my standards for functionality as long as there's a way forward.
I would recommend you try running a librem 5 or maybe a pinephone in a year or two. (though from pinephone videos I've seen, the librem stutters less if ever)
Back to normal people, I guess I was thinking of some of my friends who have bought phones and literally never installed an app. But some of them are millionaires who probably are tracked everywhere they go by the default apps and the default privacy policies. They get popups all the time and their phone rings with spam.
This phone is expensive for what it provides, so maybe it's a hard sell.
Out-of-the-box - the main functionality is a phone app, a messages app, a web browser, contacts, alarm clock and an app store.
There are a few more, and more pop up in the app store, but some core things are missing.
The ones that I hope will come out soon are a camera app, a maps app and some sort of media player. I'd personally like a todo list and a shopping list.
I think if you got those going, you could hand it to a normal person and they could use it. I don't think it would be that different from a basic android phone.
But what I REALLY look forward to are the things other phones aren't allowed to do.
I would like to see:
- smarter call handling - I think there could be smarter blocking. But I also wonder could your phone take a message and put it through if it meets conditions?
- rolling wifi - could you have a wifi access point that changes ssid on a timer? and your phone changes too?
- location based wifi - could your wifi go off when you leave home and come back on when you get nearby?
- a smart firewall - whitelist your traffic
- per-site web-browsers with sandboxing - could you have an icon that launches a web browser in a sandbox and talks to one and only one site? That might be the solution for big services - they all have web access, use that but control it.
> - smarter call handling - I think there could be smarter blocking. But I also wonder could your phone take a message and put it through if it meets conditions?
It boggles my mind how so many people install alexa, ring, samsung tvs and all the brightly colored google things. Of course they'll buy whatever phone has neat features.
Human nature is human nature, and people want convenience not privacy.
But take it from me - one curmudgeon to another - after you've been hit over the head with ever more audacious privacy policies year after year, this phone is a relief.
I don't mind lowering my standards for functionality as long as there's a way forward.
I would recommend you try running a librem 5 or maybe a pinephone in a year or two. (though from pinephone videos I've seen, the librem stutters less if ever)
Back to normal people, I guess I was thinking of some of my friends who have bought phones and literally never installed an app. But some of them are millionaires who probably are tracked everywhere they go by the default apps and the default privacy policies. They get popups all the time and their phone rings with spam.
This phone is expensive for what it provides, so maybe it's a hard sell.
Out-of-the-box - the main functionality is a phone app, a messages app, a web browser, contacts, alarm clock and an app store.
There are a few more, and more pop up in the app store, but some core things are missing.
The ones that I hope will come out soon are a camera app, a maps app and some sort of media player. I'd personally like a todo list and a shopping list.
I think if you got those going, you could hand it to a normal person and they could use it. I don't think it would be that different from a basic android phone.
But what I REALLY look forward to are the things other phones aren't allowed to do.
I would like to see:
- smarter call handling - I think there could be smarter blocking. But I also wonder could your phone take a message and put it through if it meets conditions?
- rolling wifi - could you have a wifi access point that changes ssid on a timer? and your phone changes too?
- location based wifi - could your wifi go off when you leave home and come back on when you get nearby?
- a smart firewall - whitelist your traffic
- per-site web-browsers with sandboxing - could you have an icon that launches a web browser in a sandbox and talks to one and only one site? That might be the solution for big services - they all have web access, use that but control it.
- rsync your entire phone when you get home