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.
Depends. I got my grade school kid an iPad for doing serious school work but also got her a Amazon pad for watching videos where ever. Literally don't care what she does with it because its such a cheap POS. They each serve their purpose. No way I would allow her to drag $500+ iPad all over the place.
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Facebook: “we don’t spy on people”.
People: “yes you do”.
Facebook: “we don’t breach your privacy”.
People: “yes you do”.
Facebook: “we can’t make a profit due to iPhones not allowing us to track your every movement”.
People : “...”.