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The Crook Who Donated 1m to Corrupt Mango Mussolini (lemmy.ca)
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[+] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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    [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    ... and his reward was... ?

    104% tariffs on ... basically all? literally all? ... of their products, headed toward their primary consumer market.

    Oh right and a, lets see here now... about a 34% drop in their stock price aftet people realized Trump wasn't kidding about the tariffs.

    Thats about -$1.4 trillion in market cap.

    Money well spent Tim Apple, great job!

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    India will likely take over iPhone production

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I mean, eventually, sure, but that'll take years.

    In the meantime, Nothing makes pretty reasonably priced phones, they are already based in, and native to India.

    CMF phone seems fairly comparable to an iPhone 15 to me, with somewhat less fancy cameras, better battery capacity and faster charging, and about 1/3 the price.

    I still don't understand why anyone would buy an iPhone, at all, ever, in the last 10 years, beyond wealth-peacocking, conspicuous consumption.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I’ll tell you why. I have always had distaste for Apple products, which mostly came from having to support them in a business environment for decades.

    I was an Android guy for years, custom ROMs, etc. Loved it. Then all the privacy and tracking scandals appeared, and I slowly realized Google was just evil.

    I don’t buy iPhones because Apple is good. I buy them, begrudgingly, because Google is the devil.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    ... But there are a multitude of security focused or at least de-googled android roms/oses.

    I mean, i am not trying to be an ass, I do genuinely aporeciate your answer, and I totally get it.

    But at the same time, you said you already have experience with custom ROMs...

    And though yes, it is very annoying imo that many of the more well known ones seem to mostly focus on supoorting Google Pixels, but there are other supported phone mnfctrs and models you can combo with other custom ROMs.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes I ran de-googled phones for years. But the scandal that they were tracking phones even when all tracking was disabled was my last straw. I can’t trust them and I can’t trust the hardware. Could I have found something? Yes, but just like putting up with Microsoft’s bullshit, it became exhausting protecting myself from my own vendor, and I finally had enough.

    I really wish there was a decent third option.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    ... Yeah. That makes sense.

    So far, my hope is that someone develops at first just a stable de-googled ROM for a Nothing CMF phone, and then that can grow into being supported by a more security focused android ROM/distro.

    You sound like you know more about the technicals about this than I do... afaik there are a few actually secure either android forks or just linux distros that run on android hardware... but they basically only support stupid expensive phones.

    Would really be great if a decent quality, actually affordable, reasonably secure phone existed.

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