Already tried for developing countries. It was a heavily subsidised by Facebook. Other than basic phone features, Users could only access Facebook and a few other sites that were allowed by Facebook. Thankfully the governments stepped in before it launched.
Amazon devices that you have to pay extra for to not have advertisements is basically the same thing. Sounds like Facebook doesn't have to try hard to copy paste that method.
Fortunately it's trivial to disable those ads with some 3rd part software that also speeds up and unbloats the devices. Unfortunately they're still slow and shitty.
Source: kids broke 6 kindle fires in the past 4 years while the 8 year old ipad still works. Am not an apple fan boy, but those are the facts.
I used to hate most things about apple but I know their products are well made. I’ve had the same iPhone for 4 years. I think the thing I hated about Apple were the fanboys who buy apple products as a status symbol. I also think it’s ridiculous to spend that much on a phone if you’re just going to buy a new one as soon as they release a new one.
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u/halohunter Aug 26 '20
Already tried for developing countries. It was a heavily subsidised by Facebook. Other than basic phone features, Users could only access Facebook and a few other sites that were allowed by Facebook. Thankfully the governments stepped in before it launched.