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Re: Android 4.5: End of Road?

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The nice thing about something that works well on low end phones, it works awesome on high end phones :) Although its not necessarily something you get for free, since we havent optimised for higher end devices you can get to a point where you have too many active apps open and chew battery, there are probably other places it can improve, but it does perform nicely on higher end devices.

I recently bought a Firefox OS device as my first smartphone and I'm really looking forward to the future of this OS. However, I have been plagued with a number of problems that make really simple tasks incredibly complicated, and I hope you guys are paying attention to bug reports because there are some major issues that have remained unaddressed for an extremely long time. In any case, an open OS is a necessity and…

If you wanted to send me any bugs in particular that may be overlooked then please do, my email is in my profile.

In particular the early 'preview' launches havent gone as I personally would hoped, less than raw code there is a level of communication and collaboration with partner launches that dont exist with say, firefox, people have been working to address these and in particular I think the reference device / flame is going to be a release that fixes a lot of this.

Re: Android 4.5: End of Road?

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No, security is. On any normal Linux pc only the root user has rw rights on the system partition.

And the root user is the owner of the computer. This is saying that if you buy an Android device you are not granted the privilege of owning the device. The mindset of mobile developers is to treat the end user as an adversary. You're not meant to control your device beyond what the gatekeepers of the walled garden want you to do. They want to operate by the television model where there are a privileged few producers…

Most manufactorers supply tools to root your device. It's about the same as ubuntu having a root user without a password you still have to set.

Only if you buy your device from a carrier that locks it, you will have trouble with getting root access. But you should be angry at them, not at Google. Google is making Android safer to use for the general public. This ease of use and hanhdolding is one of the reasons Android is actually popular with non tech-savy people instead of any Linux desktop distro.

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