@gabrielesvelto @Mozilla @mozilla_support @fuchsiii yes, and #Mozilla deciding to fragment #FirefoxOS more by basically letting #MNO / #MVNO run the #AppStores instead of having a reference one made it worse than the chinese domestic market cuz at leadt there one can just get an agent to enshure one's apps are in all #Android AppStores there...
@gabrielesvelto I still remember #FirefoxOS and I'm still mad at @Mozilla / @mozilla_support / #Mozilla for self-sabotaging because neither me nor @fuchsiii nor anyone else I knew who did #WebDev / #AppDev / #MobileDev could even buy a device.
I mean it's cool that one could just use #Firefox as #Emulator but no #mobile #OperatingSystem will have any chance of market attraction if one cannot buy the bloody thing!
@ohno_itsnate Granted, the #USA is a garbage market in terms of devices and networks, way worse than #Germany was in the 1990s cuz even then #NetLock & #SimLock was so unpopular that no #postpaid #customer accepted those and even in #prepaid with subsidized handsets they got basically boycotted out of the market in the early 2000s.
I do acknowledge that @GrapheneOS has valid reasons why they keep few devices supported (tho granted it's up to #vendors to up their game - their demands ain't absurd nor unfulfillable!)...
@netopwibby OFC #FirefoxOS would've been a success if people exited about it (like me) and #developers (like @fuchsiii) were ever abke to legally obtain any device with FirefoxOS on it.
WTF iphone?
I looked at my work #iphone this morning and it said: "Sim card locked".
AGAIN? The other one had that and I thought it was broken. Is this some joke from Apple? And does anyone know how to stop that thing from doing this crap? This can prevent me from hearing standby calls.
I’m trying to check if an old phone running #LineageOS in the US is network locked. It currently doesn’t have a SIM card in it, but I could put in inactive SIM in it if that would help.
I tried several online IMEI checkers. Besides being covered in ads, none of them showed the lock status.
Suggestions? Thanks!
@bob_zim yeah. Seen it. in the writeup by @micahflee ...
I just hope to find any that ain't #NetLock'd / #SimLock'd to #Verizon and that these support more than #US-#LTE bands...
I just wish @eff wouldn't expect everyone to use #centralized, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider services like @signalapp in the age of #CloudAct, cuz neither I nor anyone I'd trust would submit #PII to them like a #PhoneNumer as a matter of principle!
@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill @tomiahonen yes, and to add insult to injury #Mozilla didn't even wanted to sell people like @fuchsiii or me a #FirefoxOS device, with the only one being "launched" in the #EU being a #SimLock'd & #NetLock'd #prepaid phone in #Spain one could only attain in-store with all the "#KYC" nonsense they had, demanding a legal address in Spain back then.
And #nerds like myself are far from the "#consoomer #Normies" for whom stuff that isn't on shelves at Staturn/MediaMarkt, BestBuy, Walmart, ... doesn't exist. I'm used to importing #tech that I want!
@quasigod there's a reason #SimLock and #NetLock died in #Europe over a decade ago.
That being said even #Prepaid providers don't lock their devices anymore but instead they just sell people devices at cost with a tiny margin and make their €€€ longterm bunding a free #SIM with every purchase.
#RIP #FirefoxOS, cuz @mozillaofficial refusing to sell #develooers devices made it a stillborn!
@frumble @mozilla Und ja, alle #WebDevs die ich kenne waren begeistert wo #FirefoxOS vorgestellt wurde weil dann ist #Apps programmieren umso einfacher und ohne Bullshit möglich...
Die einzigen FirefoxOS-Geräte in der #EU waren #SimLock'd / #NetLock'd #Prepaid-Handys die nur in Spanien bei Telefonica nur als Bundle mit SIM in Shops verkauft wurden!
@ohanamatsumae @micr0 yikes.
#NetLock / #SimLock is still a thing in the #USA?
