first world countries have carrier locking illegal, and carriers sell the same configuration phones as regular shops.
sudoku
yeah, but all of those 400-500 kkm cars get bought up by Kazakhstan and similar country importers.
well maybe in 3rd world like USA they do
Well maybe in your 3-rd world they do.
you drive your cars for 300000 miles?
Your Lemmy instance is running under Estonian domain and yet you still imagine the world as just USA
The way of Toyota hybrids! Though those can power wheels somewhat-directly too.
electric cars are expensive, the engines are pretty cheap.
source: my crackpipe
Soviet gulags are probably closer to this innovative anon vision than german camps. More work, less purposeful death. Still awful, but not surprising coming from shithole like soviet union.
The VW ID.3 was available for $18k in China for a limited time. Meanwhile the current price in EU is around under 40k€. It seems VW won't be able to use EU market to subsidize their sales in China.
carriers who must sell the same phone as an electronics retailer cannot stop you from unlocking the bootloader.