Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by dragonwriter » Sat, Sep 15, 2018, 12:04 AM UTC

dreamcompiler wrote: post #72

duiker101 wrote: post #60

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Any Samsung phone?

Samsungs have crappy battery life and no SD slot. I know because I'm typing this on a Galaxy S6.

> Samsungs have crappy battery life and no SD slot. I know because I'm typing this on a Galaxy S6.

Samsung brought back SD to their flagship line with the S7/Note7 generation. The S6 / Note5 generation is the only one that didn't have SD, as I recall.

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

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Post by sharkjacobs » Sat, Sep 15, 2018, 12:07 AM UTC

mothsonasloth wrote: post #74

sharkjacobs wrote: post #13

This post is on a Medium blog. Life is compromise.

I can't wait for Medium to go the way of blogger, into the halls of internet obscurity.

I'm just worried it will go the way of geocities.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Sep 15, 2018, 12:16 AM UTC

chooseaname wrote: post #89

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.

Not gonna ask. Nope. Not gonna.

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

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Post by sdegutis » Sat, Sep 15, 2018, 12:27 AM UTC

KeitIG wrote: post #80

suyash wrote: post #64

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Calling it "eOS" could be a viable name for lay people. Officially it can still be /e/.

This is kind of already taken by elementary os though.

How about something phonetic like Slashy Slash (a la Marky Mark)?

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

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Post by ofcourseianal » Sat, Sep 15, 2018, 12:45 AM UTC

“be far more respectful of user’s data privacy”

“the chat application is Telegram”

Is this satire?

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

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Post by mook » Sat, Sep 15, 2018, 12:47 AM UTC

biktor_gj wrote: post #59

Hey, first of all, I love to see the custom rom scene still doing its thing. I think we need to keep fighting to keep our phones as open and as 'ours' as possible. But we, and I mean, a big 'we' as everyone in XDA Developers, Lineage OS developers etc, have as a group a tremendous knowledge in this area.In fact, for the most developed phones, we know almost everything about them. If only everyone could get toghether…

I have vague recollecting of FirefoxOS being like that, where the underlying layer (gonk?) was Android-derived.

They certainly didn't go for an Android-compatible app layer though.

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

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Post by jczhang » Sat, Sep 15, 2018, 12:57 AM UTC

The target demo seems to be one that wouldn't care for this product.

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

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Post by komali2 » Sat, Sep 15, 2018, 1:06 AM UTC

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

lol this is the most savage fucking thread on all of HN for sure

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

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Post by blt » Sat, Sep 15, 2018, 1:16 AM UTC

sharkjacobs wrote: post #92

mothsonasloth wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't wait for Medium to go the way of blogger, into the halls of internet obscurity.

I'm just worried it will go the way of geocities.

doubtful, nobody will ever look back wistfully on the aesthetic of early Medium pages.

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

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Post by petecox » Sat, Sep 15, 2018, 1:48 AM UTC

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.

> /e/ is not obviously pronounceable

On the contrary, it's a scientific notation for a specific pronunciation of the letter e.

/e/ represents in linguistics an unrounded closed-mid front vowel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-mid_front_unrounded_vo...