Can you imagine how much more powerful, performant, and capable all existing technology would be without ads? Without constantly wasting resources digging through your whole life to feed your essence into a machine that just spits out an annoying message like “buy the new Carbon X2 Smart Toaster, now with AutoButter and Twitter integration. Burn your favorite tweets into your breakfast. Only 149.95 at Best Buy and Amazon”
take everything you like about the iphone and remove everything you don't. the public/government could just hire 300 engineers and pay them very good wages to develop and produce a smart phone, but tell them to make it without a profit motive in mind, make it as useful as possible, and that it should be as cheap and reliable as possible. (where as the engineers at google are told make it as profitable as possible, while maintaining enough usability to not hurt sales)
Communist smartphone - open source software, components built to last minimum 30 years, easy to repair
Also, ban bloatware
Open source hardware too
If you're happy with a thicker phone, you can have separate PCBs you can switch out to improve components or for easier repairability
Needs a big enough of a production run that software devs are forced to optimize their software well enough to actually run on the things.
Also you can get a bunch of free CPU power on it and all other devices by ending advertising.
Can you imagine how much more powerful, performant, and capable all existing technology would be without ads? Without constantly wasting resources digging through your whole life to feed your essence into a machine that just spits out an annoying message like “buy the new Carbon X2 Smart Toaster, now with AutoButter and Twitter integration. Burn your favorite tweets into your breakfast. Only 149.95 at Best Buy and Amazon”
take everything you like about the iphone and remove everything you don't. the public/government could just hire 300 engineers and pay them very good wages to develop and produce a smart phone, but tell them to make it without a profit motive in mind, make it as useful as possible, and that it should be as cheap and reliable as possible. (where as the engineers at google are told make it as profitable as possible, while maintaining enough usability to not hurt sales)