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Who are these "people" who post enlightened reviews on the spammiest and most bloated apps on android in existence? It seems most mobile users hsve fallen in line to what corporate devs want you to do, rather than seeing what could be done, in software.

Posted this after seeing an unsolicited notification in the oculus ("meta") app, and visiting it in the (obligatory horrendous) play store, and seeing my one star review. I got that app because I hsve a headset which is 100% dependent on it and my phone.

I cant wait for the steam frame. It might be more expensive and less performant, but it will most likely be a better experience- if its like other vslve hardware I could mod and flash a custom OS hopefully if I wanted to.

I got a quest 3 gifted to me because of its hardware. I didnt ask for a frontend to meta horizons, or get a 256GB headset to stream spatial video at 10 fps over a capped xfinity internet.

I want the full potential of the headset to be realized, its spatial sensor and color fpv marvels of technology largely untouched by devs, and handicapped by proprietary software as a service. Its awful that I cant see what the headset can do, over what the software cant do.

There is no reason why the hardware needs a Facebook account to work, or why it needs a phone. Its about as capable as my phone. The app doesnt do much more than what the headset can do. Yet I can't ignore my ugly avatar forcibly changed from my profile photo every time I want to use the headset...

... A reminder every time I boot the headset about who actually owns the experience. I own the hardware, but meta will do anything in their software to ensure they own my experience. They choose what I csn see and where the options are and when the device updstes, even against my own intentions.

This is the ultimate modern crime of software engineering, and meta is far from the one being guilty. Theyre not creating new experiences, theyre controlling the experience, and if you dont play along theyll brick your hardware. This should be illegal. Every hardware should be unlockable.

Protect your servers, because assume the client is always malicious and cannot/should not be controlled- seems like a lost practice in comp sec. Meta, google, PlayStation, Microsoft, apple, any LLM company, amd, amazon, darn it your bank account and other companies forcing tech on you...