I don’t entirely disagree, but I do. Developers are the problem. But it’s not the cost of the hardware, it’s the cost of the ecosystem.
My creature comforts are a driving factor that incentivises my purchases. I have graphine on my phone because I value my privacy and control of my device, but it also has an ecosystem that still allows me to Snapchat my friends if I want to.
The Linux phone ecosystem is a barren wasteland. Do you want a calculator app? Ok sure. It even works with your mint distro on your laptop. But do you want to send insta reels to your friends? Whoa buddy. Stop right there.
The developers are the problem because they don’t have a pool worth investing time and effort rewriting apps.
It’s not their fault. The Precambrian explosion happened because it was a clean slate. And we haven’t had any substantial exotic life emerge since. It’s tough to evolve an exotic new take of a eucaryote that resporates sulphur while mastadons are prancing around on top of you.
The large-scale tech lifeforms are currently enshittifying themselves into extinction with AI and age verification and manipulative algorithms and other invasive irritants that people are already getting beyond fed up with tolerating.
The precambrian explosion to replace them is already starting to mutate in different directions. We’ll see what sticks.
I don’t entirely disagree, but I do. Developers are the problem. But it’s not the cost of the hardware, it’s the cost of the ecosystem.
My creature comforts are a driving factor that incentivises my purchases. I have graphine on my phone because I value my privacy and control of my device, but it also has an ecosystem that still allows me to Snapchat my friends if I want to.
The Linux phone ecosystem is a barren wasteland. Do you want a calculator app? Ok sure. It even works with your mint distro on your laptop. But do you want to send insta reels to your friends? Whoa buddy. Stop right there.
The developers are the problem because they don’t have a pool worth investing time and effort rewriting apps.
It’s not their fault. The Precambrian explosion happened because it was a clean slate. And we haven’t had any substantial exotic life emerge since. It’s tough to evolve an exotic new take of a eucaryote that resporates sulphur while mastadons are prancing around on top of you.
The large-scale tech lifeforms are currently enshittifying themselves into extinction with AI and age verification and manipulative algorithms and other invasive irritants that people are already getting beyond fed up with tolerating.
The precambrian explosion to replace them is already starting to mutate in different directions. We’ll see what sticks.