Facebook has to wake up. You're not a serious company anymore if you don't build your own phone, running on your own silicon.
If you want to control eyeballs, you have to control the device.
If you want to control eyeballs, you have to control the device.
I'd almost say any device by Facebook should be made illegal unless you notify people close to you that you're "monitoring".
Probably a lot of people if it was cheap enough and marketed right.
I completely agree with you on this, yet a lot of people are buying Oculus sets
And make it hard enough to root so that people just don't get a cheap phone and install vanilla Android on it.
How can they be sure the user with the rooted phone is Very Good At Security and rooted their phone on purpose instead of someone who got their phone hacked and has spyware listening to their banking logins?
The safe bet for banks is to deny all banking on rooted phones, that way they don't need to argue about lost money, they can just go "phone rooted, not our problem, we did our best to prevent it".
It should scream the people that phone is rooted. But, denying services is inimical.
Its not just banking app I have started to see a lot of app behaving differently when phone is rooted. Rooting generally means people can mitm app, which app developer obviously doesn't like. Its more about control than security in my opinion.
Release a phone with: - 0 Bloatware, - High Ram/ CPU/ functions - 100% privacy and no ads (initial days to allure consumers) - Cheap price
People will purchase them and after 3-4 year add tracking slowly in name of feedback etc. There will be some loss but for long term I think facebook should do it, or it will be wiped off from market.
If people buys oculus it shouldn't be that hard.