gonvaled

It's called a mistake. People do things by mistake.

I carry my phone in my back pocket all the time, specialy in the office where I spend most of my non-home time. It's far more comfortable than cramming it into my front pocket.

Moving with a big phone in the front pocket is also annoying: my hip and leg bones make contact with the phone, and the pressure is noticeable. By contrast, my ass is soft.

Before sitting down, I remove it. Sometimes I forget and sit on my phone. And then I remove it.

Since my phone does not bend, nothing happens.

That"s the dream being sold, which everybody buys.

In practical terms, social mobility is very low.

> Verified app stores, for example, are about providing security to the end user, not about disrespecting the end user.

Everything a company does is for the bottom line.

App stores are there for lock-in, and for taking a percent of the sale.

The security features are a (fortunate) side effect: the company uses it as selling point.

If Google trade secrets are relevant for national security, non US governments shouldn't allow Google to operate without revealing those trade secrets to their intelligence agencies.

I would like to remind international users that making use of American technology makes you a pawn in the current trade war.

The US is a counterparty risk.

Any meddling by any other country would have not had the same effect.

What you are saying is that, because of the pervasiveness of US tech, all organizations having US a companies as members are at risk.

Time for the world to route around this single point of failure.

You should probably relay this information to those spending huge amounts in advertising.

Android is, as all US technology, a counterparty risk.

Your solution is (was?) to use your own email address (with your own domain) with email forwarding to your gmail address. This way you do not make your gmail address public, and can move frontends easily.

This does not solve the fact that your email archive is in gmail though.

The situation is unbearable. We can not continue like this. US technology companies have accumulated too much power.

The EU should start requiring contractual assurances by technology companies for customers of US products, guaranteeing that:

- data is 100% portable between providers

- services will not be disrupted in case of political conflicts

Failing to provide these assurances should be punished with steep fines, and eventually by forbidding said companies to operate on the EU markets.

I do not care what happens in the US. I am not in the US. I am not a US citizen. But I am affected by the decisions of what I consider an adversary, that is removing me the option of buying a perfectly functioning product.

I understand why this is happening. I understand the motivations.

What I am saying is that we outside the US should plan accordingly, and reduce our dependency to US technology.

I welcome this event, since I consider it a wake up call. I am convinced the Chinese will lead in making the technology stack a free market again.

That could very well be the case. But I don't care: Huawei has no power over me. Neither has the Chinese Government.

The US is equally eager (or more) to tamper with the free market, with the small difference that they are in a position to actually do it. From my point of view, the US is a huge problem, and is making my life difficult, but the Chinese are just another producer of cheap and good quality goods.

The point is that we have allowed US companies to have absolute control of the technology stack. There is no competition (at most between US companies).

There are several ways to mitigate this:

- Open Source. Android itself falls into this category, and it can not be taken away. This is the best way, but let's be realistic here: it is not for everybody.

- Multiple suppliers, from multiple countries, so that we have real competition.

Security considerations have absolutely nothing to do with the Huawei ban. The US has provided no evidence, and has refused the offer by Huawei to collaborate in any investigation.

This is part of the trade war, and the fact that the US is openly lying about the motives of the ban shows how risky the position of US customers have become: there is absolutely no recourse.

And even if the security claims were true (they are not), so what? Why I, an European customer, must be affected by security concerns of a far away country? Why is Huawei in a position to be forced to let down its customers?

Non-US companies must rethink the way they rely on an increasingly isolated and belicose US.

Perfectly on point.

US companies have now been shown for what they really are: an extension of the US government.

As such those companies can and will be used to make political points and advance US interests.

Caveat emptor: using US technology has big risks.