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The reasons are very clear, while I trust Apple so far, it’s both important and awesome that a bunch of nice peoples start building a real FOSS alternative in c
by Twisell 8y ago
The reasons are very clear, while I trust Apple so far, it’s both important and awesome that a bunch of nice peoples start building a real FOSS alternative in case they are actually screwing us.
Android can’t be trusted anymore unless major change of policy. By extension AOSP are better but still dubious since they can’t totally cut the cord from Google if needed (as far ad I understood).
- ewoodrich 8y agoWhat do you mean by "cut the cord?", AOSP doesn't use Google Services and it could be forked at any time (but would admittedly be difficult to maintain without Google's resources).
- zozbot123 8y agoThe mainstream Linux stack is getting closer to parity with AOSP and ChromiumOS anyway, gaining features like touch-screen-first input, small-screen support, phone calls & SMS, GPS location, privacy-focused sandboxing etc. It's all about having a single system for the community to focus on, thus reducing fragmentation. AOSP app support can then be layered over the basic system if needed.
- majewsky 8y ago> The mainstream Linux stack Without taking away anything from your argument, I'd like to point out that by most objective measures, Android is the mainstream Linux stack.
- bubblethink 8y agoI think they meant mainline.
- _bxg1 8y agoExactly- even if you want to diverge completely, it still seems like you're better off with that enormous head start.