Many come up when searching Pinephone Pro on YouTube. I don’t want to link any in particular because I can’t vouch for them, but they’re definitely out there. And they’re all about 3 years old.
I watched a few when it was new and it was clear it was for geeks. The killer for me is banking. Until banks are onboard with mobile check deposit, I probably can’t see them fully taking off.
Great example. But if you’ve seen videos on them, most people wouldn’t be willing to use it. It’s not about getting nerds like us to buy one, it’s about getting someone used to the latest iPhone to use it.
Step one is making it exist, step 2 is making it marketable and scalable. Expecting this for competitive pricing in the early stages is unrealistic. Until there’s a real market for truly open phones pushed with millions in marketing to go along with competitive hardware that takes ages to develop, the well-priced phone will remain laden with unauthorized changes, tracking and advertising. This is all before you get software developers on board before it actually sells to people.
Unless all you need are phone calls or text messaging. That could probably be done at a reasonable price. There’s probably already several decent projects out there to homebrew that.
Something tells me the people they run over will have some issues with this approach.
I still don’t know what’s going to happen when people get injured or killed by them. Tesla certainly won’t pay for it with their infinite lawyer money, so are these people just screwed?
No amount of money could ever achieve this
Maybe that’s a dark mode thing? I know Dark Reader breaks almost anything with an already dark theme.
I agree with everything here. The internet wasn’t always a constant amusement park.
I’m rather proud of my own static site
This is the same reason I feel like peoples ideas of being “uploaded to the Matrix” are just as flawed. All of the same talking points but with a digital output. Being uploaded means death because my consciousness will cease to exist and simply be emulated by a computer after.
The only one who gain the benefit of me uploading is everyone but myself.
This has me thinking about the production of really serious material. I’d imagine people are still enjoying their jobs and everything, but does the mood get all down when sitting a serious scene and having to put actors through their paces for multiple retakes? I’d have to imagine certain scenes would just be super emotionally taxing for the whole crew.
Some part of me hopes that the current shit show eventually reaches some sort of conclusion and all of the people that actually have real-world skill sets will get to go back to what they know how to do because the business that ran on capital will have collapsed. I know it’s an unrealistic hope. But it’s a hope nonetheless.