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Why would a company sell such a device? Unless it's a privacy company, they will prefer to bloat the device with spyware in order to continue making money by selling user data.
And how in the past companies was making money from producing phones in times of Nokia in 2008-2009 when there no good internet and no ability to spy on user
I talked about continuing to make money , after they sell the device. It's usually just more profitable for a company to not respect their users.
Most companies, if not all, can probably sustain one time payments, but investors prefer growth.
I wonder whether mobile device manufacturers get a cut from Google's spyware revenue.