Its not about nicely asking apple for “help” pre installing some apps, it is forcing them to open up the os to different software sources.

I don’t see it necessarely as a bad thing. I would rather have my gov id app (for taxes, id and driving licence, public services info) on my phone when i buy it, rather than candy crush and other fucking bloatware. I think it would also help a lot of non-tech savy users set up their phones quickly.

Second of all, gov ID apps having their own store on the side is good. Them being only available on google’s store makes it so that if you want to access public services from your state you have to go through google (?), it is clearly not acceptable by a government standpoint, It is even worse than a monopoly.

Somewhat untrue by my experience. If you use a custom Rom purposely built without google’s garbage then yes, sure. But on normal devices, even if you don’t log into a google account, android is still going to use google services for at least notifications and location. Google Play Services will still be running in the background all the time sending constant network requests.

I would not be against all of this (being able to change device while keeping all app data, including logins would be pretty cool), if it wasn’t could based on Google’s servers. No thanks.

Lmfao

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an American government-funded international media organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analyses to Eastern Europe

During the Cold War, RFE was primarily aimed at broadcasting to Soviet satellite states, including the Baltic states, and RL targeted the Soviet Union itself. RFE was founded by the National Committee for a Free Europe as an anti-communist propaganda[8] source in 1949, while RL was founded two years later.

Guys you don’t understand this is how indipendent journalism is done

Do we have something like this for Asia as well? Like you never know they might run out of our garbage propaganda… Oh yes we do.

Edit: this stuff is worse than like CGTN or Sputnik, because at least those don’t try to hide behind “InDePeNdEnT jOuRnAliSm” when they are financed by the goverment that rivals the area they serve.

RiscV! RiscV!

This is the definition of an artic-ad

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Huh? But I am assuming you do, so what is the issue here in counting it as a separate country?

Taiwan…?

Because there is too many ads

Teoretically speaking, asking for a friend who’s doing research, how would you access such a service? :)

The attack begins with a phishing email sent to the target

Okay bro im not reading past this its 2024

Yeah right? Wasn’t it ukranians that did that?

Oh I didnt know you had that in the US, my bad

Do we seriously need an article for an app changing its name tho?

What components are you talking about? Can you provide some sort of source or reference or something? Are you maybe talking about the data modem?

Google sure is creating a lot of Pixel-fanboys by instilling this myth that if you dont get daddy google’s precious over-the-air updates delivered to your phone in 30 seconds after their release your phone might be at great risk®™ (exactly like if you dont let google play store scan the apps on your device to look for malicious software, like F-Droid, a common known attack vector).

Because surely Fairphone users are all government officials with nuclear codes and Kim Jong-un’s nudes saved in their notes and teams of indian hackers are 24/7 waiting for a security update to release, so they can unpack the zero-day-vulnerabilities before fairphone gets their release-cycle

Can you please elaborate further on this “component lifespan” thing? Because I think they were quite clear on the processor life cycle.