Apple and Google will gladly erase the works of developers to chase profits.
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At this point I'd rather keep my freedom and lose the convenience. If it means losing apps and horsepower, fine by me. I'm already half resigned to going back to a dumbphone. I'm also looking at options to assemble my own phone with off the shelf parts if that's what it takes.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither. - Thomas Jefferson
i hear there is actual good stuff to be done with stripped raspberry pis.
what are you looking at for making a practical phone?
Phone calls, SMS, data as a baseline. GPS, and a way to run signal would be great. Everything else would be gravy.
My first thought was to use a pi zero as a base from which to build. Getting everything to fit in a package that fits in my pocket would be next. I can go to a machine shop to make a case from aluminium, rubber gaskets for water protection. Unfortunately I have a more than full time job and can't really dedicate any time to figuring this out, but if there are reproducible instructions already out there, then I will be looking at that option and start getting the parts to build.
It also helps that my phone carrier is offering me a free line right now so I can run 2 phones like a drug dealer.
As read by Spock although Civilization a slightly different version attributed to Benjamin Franklin.