I feel like I am feeding a troll, but let me break this down:

If you have a gun, you can point it at anything and pull the trigger, you don’t need the permission of the manufacturer to do so.

Not with a phone, you CAN’T load any software you want into your phone.

That’s the difference, you can do whatever you want with a gun, and if you mess up, you go to jail. You can’t do whatever you want with your phone, only what the corp.s (apple) allow you to.

*if google /OEMs still provide drivers for AOSP (check calyxos blog, google stopped doing it and it is killing custom ROMS)

older folks to get arround without obstacles

Bro has not seen a Brazilian sidewalk, there are light posts in the middle of it, and the owners of the buildings are responsible for maintaining it, so every 10 meters there is a giant step and some rough terrain. Brazil has horrible urban planning and walkability, the city hall decision just sounds like carbrain to me. “The sidewalk is small so we will push people indoors” Why is the sidewalk small in the first place?

Yeh, but why is the sidewalk small in the first place? (Not attacking you, but you know what I mean)

You don’t get it, its to protect the women! /s

Exactly, im south american, and in the 3% of earners here (brute), but still not part of that 10%…