Is the Light Phone getting too smart?

When Joe Hollier and Kaiwei Tang met at an experimental incubator run by Google a little more than a decade ago, developing a new phone from scratch wasn’t the goal. Rather, they were encouraged to think up and create new smartphone apps. Almost immediately the two of them found the assignment grating. The business model of many smartphone apps is retention: someone using the app over and over, sharing their time and personal data in the process. They wanted to flip the script.  “A lot o...