[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] IT_Architect:
I came from a Touch Pro2, which ran Windows Mobile, which was the Pocket PC, with touch, a stylus, and voice added. It was XP in your pocket, with MS Office in ROM, and any app you could ever want. It took Android and Apple half a decade to catch up. I could clear it, install Android Froyo, clear it again, and go back to Windows Mobile, with no carrier or phone manufacturer involvement. In fact that is how XDA started. Later it was Note 3s and 4s on and root without breaking KNOX. Then KNOX would break forever if you got root. Then you couldn't get root. Then they started adding policies so that software authors had to keep changing their programs to do less and less for the user. Now, you cannot even record your own phone, calls BUT you have to give Google, Samsung, the carriers, and anyone who will pay them a nickel, full access to your calls and private information, to be used for any purpose against you, while PCs that you can do anything with, do the banking, buying, selling, trading, and run the PSTN that you talk on. Google said in court that they haven't spied on people's emails for a long time and then it was learned that's because they have a 3rd party doing it. Then Google told people how to delete their travel history, but it was later learned that the user couldn't see it anymore and Google still had it all. Everyone tries to force you to store your information on their servers for free because they are all competing in the "nice guy" contest. They demonstrate on TV how they can find someone in New York City in 30 minutes based on information they got clandestinely from people's cell phones using recent close-up pictures, fingerprints, and iris scans from their devices that you have no access to or control over, and street cameras and recognition software. They are used by organized crime in systemically corrupt tax-funded organizations at the highest levels. Your privacy is protected by privacy policies that start out with, "We take your privacy seriously..." and end up reading they can use your information for any purpose and give or sell to anyone. Of course a lot of this non-personally identifiable information. All they know for sure is according to OnStar records and your cell phone GPS is when they were traveling together, and that traffic cameras have a picture of someone who looks like you in the driver's seat, with a phone that spends its nights at at a house owned by you, and a camera on your TV that shows someone who looks like you watching these programs on TV and someone who looks like you using using your computer to visit these sites according to Google, and your phone voice trained by someone using the phone purchased by you. To keep you up to date on the latest tracking devices, they glue the battery so you will need to buy a new on and ensure it is never off. However, to actually spy on you requires unverified information, from unverified sources and newspaper articles written by complicit "journalists", presented by criminals who have implemented illegal entrapment schemes, to receive authorization from a complicit FISA court that does not verify the basis to spy on you, and who authorizes them to spy on you and anyone related, which means back to Adam and Eve and anyone related to them, and do this research using information collected prior to the FISA application, all of which can be unmasked by anyone who doesn't like you, and truthful or not information leaked to a media accomplice, who is not required to reveal where they received the information. The only one who doesn't have knowledge of all of the information collected about you and how it is used, is you. Perhaps people in communist China are just behind the times and have this crazy expectation of being able to use any phone they buy to do the things they want to use it for like we used to be able to do. Now you are telling me that you want that too, AND have control and access to your own information to defend yourself? What are you going to come up with next, go back to carriers that simply sell cellular service and wireless Internet, phone manufacturers that just make phones, and phone operating system that enables you to get it to do what YOU want it to instead of what some else says you may do with your phone? Get with the times. That's horse and buggy thinking, and don't don't give me this crap about there being such a thing as a deep state. BTW, your health insurance just took a tick up because your credit card shows you've been buying the wrong stuff to eat and the camera on the TV in your bedroom shows you're getting a little chubby there.(tic) ;)