I avoided those phones like the plague, guess it was a good choice.
I bet it has a lot to do with the whole huawei backdoor story.
To be honest outsourcing such sensitive consumer device to a police state has not been a good idea for a long time.
I hope it will give good reasons to consider designing either open smartphones, or minimalist os designs with c++ or webasm apps. If smartphones get bloated, they won't be affordable anymore.
Not sure that giving it to a prism+xkeyscore state is thaaat much better. And yes legal protection in the US is a lot better than China, while I as European have little power in either, but also hardly an alternative.
I bet it has a lot to do with the whole huawei backdoor story.
To be honest outsourcing such sensitive consumer device to a police state has not been a good idea for a long time.
I hope it will give good reasons to consider designing either open smartphones, or minimalist os designs with c++ or webasm apps. If smartphones get bloated, they won't be affordable anymore.