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Believe it or not, millions if not hundreds of millions use SMS every day.

Sarcasm was missed apparently.

That’s great and all but some apps require GPStore and check for license upon every start.

Ex: Radarscope

Don’t suggest FOSS weather map apps, they all suck in comparison.

Neither was Apple.

You mean the stock AOSP message app?

Well, the euro in your bank account is owned by the bank (they have custody) and nominally assigned to you.

A digital CBDC euro would be owned directly by the government, kept in an “account” controlled directly by that same government, which then they will allow you to use “your” (their) money.

The differences would have been more obvious 50 years ago when bank balances weren’t just numbers on a screen like today.

Probably some govt somewhere:

“Protests are malicious. Dissent is illegal. Free-thought/expression is dangerous”