[LINK] Who Owns Mobile Phones

[Craig Sanders]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 06:27:29AM +0000, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> How to stop Facebook and Apple from taking over the mobile phone industry

...and let other corporations take control instead.

I notice that there's no mention of people, the users, the owners of the
phones having control over something so important to their lives in the modern
world.

This is just a big whinge by another corporation wanting to control other
people's digital lives - they're envious of the spyware 24/7 tracking and
lock-in of google and apple, and want it for themselves.

It also seems like a bit of a re-branding exercise by telcos or wanna-be
telcos, pissed off about the fact that they're increasingly relegated to being
just the plumbing, not the lords and masters of comms tech.

Screw them. and apple and google and facebook too.


craig

PS: there are two places where "smarts" really belong in a network, at both
of the end-points. Not in the middle, and not at the "edge" (whic is just a
shinier, fancier term for middle).

--
craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>