[iririririr]

that would actually spark a new golden age.

aws et all are just extracting rent. we all know this.

telcos have some ownership of the android firmware they distribute, and could easily spin up and fund alternatives like replicant or even go full partnership with Chinese versions.

simply moving email providers from Microsoft would make threeletter agencies work much more difficult, and it's a 2min dns change.

any way you look at it, the impact would be positive. i don't think your example is the example you think it is. like trump, you're ignoring agency to every other player in the systems and ignoring some obvious consequences.

[sajithdilshan]

Either you’re stupid or ignorant. What do you mean by easily spin up alternative android? And who is going to fund that? EU spend millions of Euros for a corona Warn app, and spinning an android alternative would cost billions, with tax payers money. Also everyone that uses iPhones, what are they going to do? Are they gonna get free android phones?

Forget about phones, all the companies that uses RDS would lose their data and that would be catastrophic.

[spwa4]

> And who is going to fund that?

Oh, European billionnaires and incumbent telecoms would love to. As soon as they get enough government concessions and guarantees. Who exactly? The ALDI family. Xavier Niel.

At least for people working in IT this is the fastest way to answer the question "how can we make it even worse?". Especially European incumbent telecoms. They're the answer to this question "do people sometime quit their job, in Europe, through suicide?". Yes, yes they do.

[sajithdilshan]

> European billionnaires and incumbent telecoms would love to As soon as they get enough government concessions and guarantees

I'm pretty sure they are really looking forward to pocket billions of tax payers money. If they are so eager, why wait for the government? just go for it like the US counterparts.