alt Hacker Newsthat 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.
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.