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Sure, if the user can build their own phone.

Otherwise they're competing with a lot of other people interested in what the phone should and should not do.

If they own a hammer, they can do what they like with a hammer, but a phone is not a hammer. It's a complex arrangement of molecules, licenses and competing group interests.

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there is nothing fundamental to differentiate a hammer from a phone except complexity.

I'm sure if someone found a way to shove ads and place restrictions on the use of your hammer they would.

Yeah, it’s the complexity that makes the difference. There’s nothing but that to differentiate anything. You, a phone, a G class star, a comedy special on DVD. All “just” complex arrangements of matter.

People make a big deal out of those differences though, go figure!

A phone is physical tool owned by a person that fits in their hands. It's not as dissimilar from a hammer as you have tried to portray.

Wordplay. I can hold your hand in my hand, is it similar to a phone?

Otherwise your line of reasoning boils down to “it exists.”

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