Do they audit the apps in their app store to make sure they are safe?
Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta
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Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta
#12> We decided to adopt “/e/” as a textual representation for the symbol of “my data is MY data” Discussion appears to be here: https://www.indidea.org/gael/blog/leaving-apple-and-google-e... I appreciate the reason for the name change, but if the goal is to target laypeople, /e/ is not obviously pronounceable or meaningful for my mom or kids/teens.
The other thing is that `/e/`, with the slashes and all, is the exact name of 4chans softcore hentai board.
Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta
#13This post is on a Medium blog.
Life is compromise.
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#14Why aren’t companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook not setting aside a few million dollars a year to support efforts like this and the Firefox phone?
Heck, even the carriers would be so much better off if they spent some money on similar projects. They don’t need to spend too much, and if one of them takes off, especially if it’s open source, then it helps reduce the tremendous risks they face since the mobile OS market is currently completely owned by 2 of their competitors.
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#15Why aren’t companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook not setting aside a few million dollars a year to support efforts like this and the Firefox phone? Heck, even the carriers would be so much better off if they spent some money on similar projects. They don’t need to spend too much, and if one of them takes off, especially if it’s open source, then it helps reduce the tremendous risks they face since the mobile OS…
Microsoft is in the phone business too.
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#16Forked from Lineage but it's unclear what problems are being solved that aren't already solved by Lineage.
Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta
#17Why aren’t companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook not setting aside a few million dollars a year to support efforts like this and the Firefox phone? Heck, even the carriers would be so much better off if they spent some money on similar projects. They don’t need to spend too much, and if one of them takes off, especially if it’s open source, then it helps reduce the tremendous risks they face since the mobile OS…
Microsoft is in the phone business too.
They gave up on mobile years ago. Both hw and sw.
Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta
#18> We decided to adopt “/e/” as a textual representation for the symbol of “my data is MY data” Discussion appears to be here: https://www.indidea.org/gael/blog/leaving-apple-and-google-e... I appreciate the reason for the name change, but if the goal is to target laypeople, /e/ is not obviously pronounceable or meaningful for my mom or kids/teens.
Totally agree, and I think it’s extremely important to have better branding if you’re actually trying to reach those user groups
This kind of project will never get any kind of attention by laypeople, so it's good that they know that and aren't even trying. Less wasted energy :-)
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#19Why aren’t companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook not setting aside a few million dollars a year to support efforts like this and the Firefox phone? Heck, even the carriers would be so much better off if they spent some money on similar projects. They don’t need to spend too much, and if one of them takes off, especially if it’s open source, then it helps reduce the tremendous risks they face since the mobile OS…
Microsoft is in the phone business too.
Still? I thought they had spun off their mobile hardware division and were instead mostly focusing on mobile software. Would make some sense for them to try to do the same thing they did with PCs and IBM back in the day, since the OS is already open source (mostly).
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#20Forked from Lineage but it's unclear what problems are being solved that aren't already solved by Lineage.
Worse, it's forked from an old version of LineageOS that will be deprecated/unsupported once 16.0 is out.