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

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Post by macintux »

mikhailt wrote: post #31
Sileni wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Is Surface making money or just stemming the bleeding?

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

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Post by craftyguy »

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.

> Are they skipping 15 for a bunch of phones?

If your device doesn't already support 15, then it's highly unlikely that it will ever seen an official release with 15, or 16, or anything >14.1.

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

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Post by moron4hire »

kirubakaran wrote: post #37
benatkin wrote: post #35

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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

I thought the ASCII art version was ][e

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

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Post by sannee »

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

To be fair, people call drugs by myriads of names. Context usually helps to disambiguate between LSD and MySQL.

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

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Post by raverbashing »

1023bytes wrote: post #9
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.

And it's very difficult to search for

This should be higher in branding concerns today

If you're not googleable, you're going to have a hard time

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

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Post by brightball »

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.

"slash e slash"

"slashy slash"

"Slashy McSlash Face"

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

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Post by 0x8BADF00D »

tzakrajs wrote: post #40
some_account wrote: post #32

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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

That’s pretty brutal, I’m sure they will have a niche of users.

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

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Post by AgentME »

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…

I assume because it would be competition against any future phone OS from Microsoft, Amazon, or Facebook.

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

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Post by liquid153 »

tzakrajs wrote: post #40
some_account wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

hahahaha
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