Why are minutes and texts still listed in phone service when everything is data?Why are cellphone networks still a thing and not handled through wireless internet?Why are smartphones still using a different operating system than desktop computers?
idk ive never owned a cell phone
probably because the government has the game in a chokehold and likes the current funnel thru which everything passes is them, so they can pass it off to our #1 ally, for strategic reasons, probably
>>107689573No doubt Google and Apple like the existing arrangement too; 30% cut of all revenue through their "Marketplaces" which are monopolies for Android and iOS. Pretty sure this is what Microsoft was trying to replicate on the desktop with Windows 11. I don't think it's possible to setup a new Android or iOS smartphone without a making a Google/Apple account in the process.
>>107689398I own a cell tower, wanna try ?
>>107689834nah thats okay, thanks though
>>107689364>Why are minutes and texts still listed in phone service when everything is data?Because not everything is "data". Not all phones support VoLTE or Vo5g for example.>Why are cellphone networks still a thing and not handled through wireless internet?I don't know how you think this works but your wireless internet (if it ain't Wi-Fi) is using the cellphone network. And should you refer to the non-ip part, then again, not all devices support doing everything over ip. Legacy shit is also the reason a lot of networks still have 2g or something like that running.>Why are smartphones still using a different operating system than desktop computers?Because the operating systems are well adapted for their specific use case and trying to expand one onto another domain entirely is virtually impossible as the "synergy effects" are not sufficient to offset the plethora of downsides this entails.Think of the catastrophe that was the windows phone. The best we can do nowadays is have android pretend it's a desktop os with a mouse and keyboard, but it's just not enough.
