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> Do you actually use that many apps. Am I just a Luddite?

I bet you don’t have kids.

What does that mean? I have kids. My phone has around 2.5GB of apps.

I was referring to having 33 GB free. People with kids tend to always be running at the razor’s edge of their storage taking pics of their little one’s latest adventures.

In retrospect quoting that last piece, rather than the whole comment, made a lot more sense when I first wrote it than it does now.

> running at the razor’s edge of their storage taking pics

Well, I have SD cards for that... Regardless, the context was apps taking space. If I had used 80-90% of my storage for pics, then size of apps isn't the issue.

Yea, the capitalist "free market" that we have allows me to go buy the latest flagship phone with and root able bootloader that I can resign, replaceable batteries, expandable storage and dual Sim. Well you can in China but not the US.

This is why I think China has won. They are able to leverage free market dynamics without the ip/legal bloat here and then they just pull out the gun for national interest.

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