Comment on ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones

• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You will own nothing and be happy.

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  • Boinketh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s the dystopia we’re headed towards already arriving at, except I’m not fucking happy.

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• TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Once digital media got away with “actually we are just letting you borrow it and can take it away whenever we want”, hardware manufacturers have been drooling to do the same. Apple and game console manufacturers are most of the way there already.

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  • zaplachi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well it sure is a good thing they are making everything smart nowadays….

    But seriously I can’t believe how fast the car industry locked previously free features behind a subscription

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I agree with the sentiment, but even the claim that they were free is part of their narrative. Their cost was included in the price of the car, everyone paid for it already. They are double-dipping.

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I suspect we’ll eventually need to create a standard much like th PC Clone, in which hardware, OS and software are independently produced and support compatibility standards.

  Not in the current clime of unregulate capitalism, though.

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  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m afraid the PC ecosystem is one-of-a-kind, and perhaps once it’s gone, we’ll never have anything like it again. Companies are obsessed with vertical integration now, owning everything from software to peripherals and accessories. The closest thing we have to PC ecosystem where multiple independent companies works to support a single platform is perhaps the raspberry pi ecosystem, but even then it’s pale in comparison to the PC ecosystem in term of variety and number of manufacturers.

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