Calling it an alternative is an insult against actual alternatives.
It's still Android, just less googly.
Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones
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Re: Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones
#62This is unrelated from the rest of the project, but why do open source projects in general have such inexplicably bad marketing? To the degree where you can't believe that somebody actually thought this would work? To the degree you can't believe someone with no marketing experience could be this inept? What is /e/? How is it pronounced? What does it mean? How do I tell people about it? Does it stick out in a Google…
Do you need good marketing to guide your decisions? Do you need someone else validating your choices? Why do you care about "good marketing"?
> How do I tell people about it?
"hey, the website is https://e.foundation, here is the link"
That was not so hard, was it?
Re: Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones
#63Is there any Android alternative that works with Android Auto? One of the primary uses of my phone is plugging into my car to play music and navigate.
Re: Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones
#64"We are making a mobile phone ecosystem that lets users escape the permanent and industrial harvesting of their personal data." I have never heard any normal person ever talk about data privacy. It feels like there's this giant bubble that the tech world lives in, and they are the only people who care about this issue.
> I have never heard any normal person ever talk about data privacy.
I hear normal people talk about it all the time. The only place where I hear that only people on HN care about privacy is on HN, constantly.
edit: I suspect that tech people who work on privacy-invading technologies live in a rationalization bubble that tells them that the complaints that they constantly hear are from a vanishingly small nerd contingent that they themselves just happen to immersed in. They don't believe their lying ears.
Re: Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones
#65From /e/'s site, de-googling (because the review didn't go in depth on this): - To remove or disable any feature or code that is sending data to Google servers, or at least to anonymize those accesses - To offer non-Google default online services, including for search. - the Google default search engine is removed and replaced by other services - Google Services are replaced by microG and alternative services - All G…
I wonder why these FOSS-y projects don't bundle Firefox for Mobile with them. It is a far superior experience with Add-Ons.
In fact, I don't even use most apps anymore, most websites' web versions are more than adequate nowadays. In fact at least in one instance viz. Duolingo, the web experience is far superior than the app.
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#66I feel like I wouldn't use this based on the name alone. How do I say it? forward slash ee forward slash? I don't understand why anyone would think it was a good idea to name it this!
I don't understand either; especially the fact that no one seemed to have done any research on any existing usage of /e/. The only explanation that makes sense is they were deliberately referencing the 4chan board, which is indeed a place best visited with privacy.
At least they didn't call it /b/.
Re: Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones
#67This is unrelated from the rest of the project, but why do open source projects in general have such inexplicably bad marketing? To the degree where you can't believe that somebody actually thought this would work? To the degree you can't believe someone with no marketing experience could be this inept? What is /e/? How is it pronounced? What does it mean? How do I tell people about it? Does it stick out in a Google…
> why do open source projects in general have such inexplicably bad marketing? Because they don't pay a marketing team to work 9-5 alongside them? That's probably the reason why all the art is ugly too, their website kinda sucks, et al. But that's not really the main appeal of this project, and I think it's honorable that they're focusing all their effort on the product rather than the vanity. If they did spend time…
I'm a little hung up on the fact that you think between "Xcode" and "visual studio" that the latter is the one that more suggests you're about to be writing code in an IDE.
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#68after being an android user for about 13 years i switched to an iphone se this year, and i’m very satisfied. you just can’t compare apples and oranges, android is sluggish even with a high end phone
I suppose it's all personal preference past a point..
I tried switching from an old Pixel 3 to a new iPhone recently and just couldn't get on with it. Simple things like not being able to order the home screen how I want it drove me nuts.
Dropped back to a Pixel 4a (5G) and I'm very satisfied. No issues with sluggish performance that I've seen.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Having parts of the OS crash, dealing with the terminal, using ADB over USB... I bought a phone from /e/ and have never had this happen in almost 2 years.
Relax, OP is just reaching for whatever rationalization they can get to continue sucking on Apple's tit.
That's a shitty comment man
Re: Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones
#70I use /e/ daily as does a co-worker (we aren't working in tech). It's the one piece of alternative software that I'm comfortable recommending to anyone. It "just works" just as much as Android "just works".
But do apps like Uber, WhatsApp etc work ok on it?