This is an article from the DailyBeast, which is fervently on the left. Their existence is to make everything on the right look bad while shining the shits of the left. Tim Pool did a fair job of covering this in the second half of today's Timcast. One of the most important things, which isn't mentioned in the DB article is what software is loaded on it. It's also not possible to produce a US made smartphone. The production capacity is just no longer around. The
If you do want a phone that's not connected to Apple or Google, you can do the partial method of installing custom firmware on an android phone. A more complete solution is the Librem 5 by Purism. They make laptops also, but they don't have the newest hardware, since they have to it takes a while to make sure the hardware doesn't do things it shouldn't.
This is an article from the DailyBeast, which is fervently on the left. Their existence is to make everything on the right look bad while shining the shits of the left. Tim Pool did a fair job of covering this in the second half of today's Timcast. One of the most important things, which isn't mentioned in the DB article is what software is loaded on it. It's also not possible to produce a US made smartphone. The production capacity is just no longer around. The
If you do want a phone that's not connected to Apple or Google, you can do the partial method of installing custom firmware on an android phone. A more complete solution is the Librem 5 by Purism. They make laptops also, but they don't have the newest hardware, since they have to it takes a while to make sure the hardware doesn't do things it shouldn't.