I have fucked up!!!!!! It is emby that is closed source fuckkkkkk!!!!!
"Emby has been relicensed and is now closed-source, while open source components will be moved to plugins. Due to this, a free open source fork of Emby was created called Jellyfin."
As long as it's not released under a copyleft license, it remains a possibility.
That's not to say they've actually done anything untoward, but this is a warning to the people who have been bit by this dynamic one too many times
As the total number user of alternative phone OS shrinks, the development of those OS becomes less and less viable.
But yes, I would see phones with mid tier specs from 3 years ago charging flagship prices to fill that the spot before it becomes entirely non-viable.
I think google does need there to be the appearance of competition so they don't get hit with monopoly lawsuits, but it only needs to exist, other than that they want it as fringe and clunky as possible and I think that's where we're headed.
Commercial IT's overreliance on cloudflare will be the undoing of the internet.