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RedHat, Canonical and Microsoft make phones?

• ry_ry 8y ago
  Ubuntu Touch & Windows Mobile (heh) are/were a thing though.
  • StudentStuff 8y ago
    Ubuntu Touch never got off the ground, and Windows Mobile was a mess to try and load apps onto (having wasted waaaay too much time messing with that years ago). On the topic of Ubuntu Phone, the reimplementation of Signal for it tried really hard to look exactly the same, except core features like calling and media were broken or had issues. https://github.com/janimo/textsecure-qml https://github.com/janimo/textsecure-qml
  • fit2rule 8y ago
    Yeah, we all know these are dead in the water. What I mean was, the old OS vendor ethos just doesn't exist any more - its no longer about giving the user the tools required to get the best value out of their computer, but rather give the computer the tools required to get the best value out of the user... RedHat/Canonical are real OS vendors. Microsoft is an also-ran ad-agency wannabe. Google: same. Apple: I give them a pass, but only because they seem to be taking privacy seriously - if only they'd give the user more control over what's going on with their devices, and stop doing things designed, clearly, to just sell more hardware ..
• newnewpdro 8y ago
  If they made phones would they still be "real" OS vendors, or just more Apple? It's not that we lack OS vendors. There's no standard mobile platform like the PC has been for general purpose computing. No hardware vendors are shipping handsets conforming to an open standard supplying open NDA-free specs and/or drivers for OS vendors to target. We have a number of OS vendors who would almost certainly support such hardware if it was being produced, were compelling, and affordable.