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Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

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Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

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Post by bunderbunder »

vilaca wrote: post #15
addicted wrote: post #14

Why 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.

Sort of. They're in the process of exiting the market.

No new phones being manufactured as of about a year ago, and support is ending at the end of next year.

Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

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Post by FrankyHollywood »

Great initiative, have been looking for an alternative for some time. I had high hopes for Sailfish (https://sailfishos.org/) but for a while it only ran on Sony Xperia, current status not clear to me. Anyone has experience with Sailfish?

Will have a look at /e/ this weekend!

Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

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Post by faag36 »

iwaffles wrote: post #23
faag36 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They gave up on mobile years ago. Both hw and sw.

Not entirely true. They shifted focus on mobile to continue making mobile software for other OSes.

We were talking about Windows Phone, not Outlook for iOS or stuff like that.

Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

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Post by rijoja »

faag36 wrote: post #24
iwaffles wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not entirely true. They shifted focus on mobile to continue making mobile software for other OSes.

We were talking about Windows Phone, not Outlook for iOS or stuff like that.

Which makes it interesting for them to have an OS that won't lock particular software out in a play akin to what MS is trying to to to Valve by using their monopoly, a dogmatic Richard Stallman approach to this would ironically save them from that.

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Post by amelius »

vilaca wrote: post #15
addicted wrote: post #14

Why 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.

Yes that's why they said "2". (Google is in the spyware market, hence cannot be taken seriously).

Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

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Post by rijoja »

abstractbeliefs wrote: post #12
bocklund wrote: post #6

> 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.

and without the slashes one of many names of a particularly popular party drug

Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

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Post by cmurf »

craftyguy wrote: post #20
tejohnso wrote: post #16

Forked 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.

Are they skipping 15 for a bunch of phones? I'm on a 2015 Motorola phone that still gets weekly 14.1 updates, and I kinda wonder if it's just EOL even for Lineage.
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