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

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Post by mikhailt »

Sileni wrote: post #19
vilaca wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

The rumors are they're still doing one last ditch, Surface Phone due to the growing Surface ecosystem that is making them money and people liking it so far.

However, they're not going to release that until they finish the CShell that they're working on the past several years.

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

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Post by some_account »

rijoja wrote: post #28
abstractbeliefs wrote: post #12

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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

Call it Evasion OS. I think it's a cool name that has an "e" in it, and it's really about evading the massive data gathering going on.

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

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Post by peterwwillis »

rijoja wrote: post #28
abstractbeliefs wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

"Hentai, ecstacy, and data ownership? Take my money." - Grandma

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

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Post by benatkin »

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.

It's similar to //e which is how Apple IIe was stylized. If it's not going to be a trademark issue, it seems like a clever branding hack to me. Anyone who grew up in the 80s & early 90s or earlier might be subtly influenced by it.

I think /e/ cute and that plenty of brands have succeeded despite being unrecognizable and unsearchable.

The meaningful symbol seems related to AirBnb and their bélo [1], which I think was largely successful.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMITXMrrVQU

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

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Post by didgeoridoo »

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.

I just assumed it was pronounced “slashy-slash”...

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

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Post by kirubakaran »

benatkin wrote: post #35
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.

It's similar to //e which is how Apple IIe was stylized. If it's not going to be a trademark issue, it seems like a clever branding hack to me. Anyone who grew up in the 80s & early 90s or earlier might be subtly influenced by it. I think /e/ cute and that plenty of brands have succeeded despite being unrecognizable and unsearchable. The meaningful symbol seems related to AirBnb and their bélo [1], which I think was…

IIRC It was stylized IIe and //c

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

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Post by subway »

cmurf wrote: post #30
craftyguy wrote: post #20

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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.

It's probably EOL.

Generally speaking you still depend on the device manufacturer to ship a compatible vendor partition in order to run a given version of LineageOS. This means that if your device doesn't have an official version of Android 8, then it will never be able to run LineageOS 15.

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

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Post by tzakrajs »

some_account wrote: post #32
rijoja wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Call it Evasion OS. I think it's a cool name that has an "e" in it, and it's really about evading the massive data gathering going on.

May as well call it extraterrestrial os because no one on Earth is going to use it
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