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It's hard to imagine that even a smartphone platform dedicated to privacy will be able to out perform the resources of Google, Apple who have entire groups work
by supernova87a 7y ago
It's hard to imagine that even a smartphone platform dedicated to privacy will be able to out perform the resources of Google, Apple who have entire groups working on solely that problem.
Unless the point is to lock down the phone so strictly that no info can leak or be taken off the phone. That's simple. But that would make a phone that's practically useless for everyday personal use except if you're a paranoid spy.
I guess the need to have privacy and security while offering users some level of reasonable usability through 3rd party apps is why Google and Apple are succeeding in the face of such privacy focused startups.
- pjc50 7y agoGoogle will at best deliver you privacy against everyone but Google.
- rorykoehler 7y agoWhich is not at all considering their business model is to prostitute your data to the highest bidder.
- zozbot234 7y agoIf anything, I would expect just the opposite. Keeping hardware the same, a degoogled AOSP rom handily outperforms the stock OS wrt. battery life and general performance/resource use, in a way that actually matters to average users. Of course it's harder to make such claims about Apple devices, since they're limited to running iOS.
- FalconSensei 7y ago> Unless the point is to lock down the phone so strictly that no info can leak or be taken off the phone. That's simple. But that would make a phone that's practically useless for everyday personal use except if you're a paranoid spy. Agree! In the end, people want to use their phones to socialize online, share pics, use maps, check weather, sync files and photos to the cloud. When you remove too much, and make the entry barrier too high, people will just ignore it.