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I don't understand why you are downvoted. The relative openness of Android is the reason something like GNU's Replicant, LineageOS or CopperheadOS (all without
by tpush 9y ago
I don't understand why you are downvoted. The relative openness of Android is the reason something like GNU's Replicant, LineageOS or CopperheadOS (all without Google software) is possible in the first place.
To see proprietary and incredibly locked-down devices such as iPhones advocated for so strongly seems so weird. As if openness and security are at odds or something.
- lern_too_spel 9y agoApple's draconian policies for controlling coverage of its products clearly work if even otherwise tech-savvy people like the HN crowd are fooled. https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2015/07/27/apples-toxic-hellstew https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2015/07/2... https://www.google.com/amp/s/9to5mac.com/2014/08/29/seeing-through-the-illusion-understanding-apples-mastery-of-the-media/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/9to5mac.com/2014/08/29/seeing-t...
- smichel17 9y agoDe-Google'd links: http://fortune.com/2015/07/27/apples-toxic-hellstew/ http://fortune.com/2015/07/27/apples-toxic-hellstew/ https://9to5mac.com/2014/08/29/seeing-through-the-illusion-understanding-apples-mastery-of-the-media/ https://9to5mac.com/2014/08/29/seeing-through-the-illusion-u...