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What mobile platform is better? I’d rather overpay slightly for hardware and have some developer on HN get pissed at the App Store than give all my personal inf

by woah 6y ago

What mobile platform is better? I’d rather overpay slightly for hardware and have some developer on HN get pissed at the App Store than give all my personal information and my whereabouts to Google.

fsflover 6y ago
> What mobile platform is better? GNU/Linux smartphones: Librem 5 and PinePhone.
- swiley 6y ago
  If only the modem didn't take 20 seconds to power up when you unlock it. and didn't crash randomly and had good support for MMS by software on the application processor.
- etaioinshrdlu 6y ago
  I just got a PinePhone and I wasn't expecting a daily driver device ... but ... oh boy, it's really, really bad. Definitely the slowest, kernel-panicky, least functional device I've ever bought. It is worse than the worst android device ever made (I've played with $10 android devices from 2013, this is slower and less functional.) It is shockingly bad. While the software is frightening, the hardware is also not good. The USB C port is totally finicky. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this device now... hopefully I can find some fun from it.
  - fsflover 6y ago
    What OS are you using? My PinePhone serves as a daily driver just fine with Mobian and SXMo. It's a bit slow but good-looking for the first OS and a bit ugly but pretty fast for the second one.
    - etaioinshrdlu 6y ago
      The stock Manjaro at the moment. Haven't tried anything else yet. Is mobian and SXMo what you recommend?
      - fsflover 6y ago
        > Is mobian and SXMo what you recommend? Yes, definitely.
yyyk 6y ago
On Android, you can ignore Google and use open source applications from F-Droid as your daily driver. If you want to go further you can install LineageOS and strip out Google Play Services. That's not an available option on iOS.
- zepto 6y ago
  The fact it’s not available on iOS means users have the choice.
  - hda2 6y ago
    Not iOS users they don't.
    - zepto 6y ago
      They don’t have to choose iOS. If they want a choice of stores, or to replace the OS, they can buy a different phone. There are many people who correctly think Apple knows better than they do about what software is safe, and for those people, iOS is a good choice.
lern_too_spel 6y ago
On any Android device, if you don't log into a Google account, you don't send your personal information to Google.

by woah 6y ago

fsflover 6y ago

> What mobile platform is better? GNU/Linux smartphones: Librem 5 and PinePhone.

swiley 6y ago
If only the modem didn't take 20 seconds to power up when you unlock it. and didn't crash randomly and had good support for MMS by software on the application processor.
etaioinshrdlu 6y ago
I just got a PinePhone and I wasn't expecting a daily driver device ... but ... oh boy, it's really, really bad. Definitely the slowest, kernel-panicky, least functional device I've ever bought. It is worse than the worst android device ever made (I've played with $10 android devices from 2013, this is slower and less functional.) It is shockingly bad. While the software is frightening, the hardware is also not good. The USB C port is totally finicky. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this device now... hopefully I can find some fun from it.
- fsflover 6y ago
  What OS are you using? My PinePhone serves as a daily driver just fine with Mobian and SXMo. It's a bit slow but good-looking for the first OS and a bit ugly but pretty fast for the second one.
  - etaioinshrdlu 6y ago
    The stock Manjaro at the moment. Haven't tried anything else yet. Is mobian and SXMo what you recommend?
    - fsflover 6y ago
      > Is mobian and SXMo what you recommend? Yes, definitely.

yyyk 6y ago

On Android, you can ignore Google and use open source applications from F-Droid as your daily driver. If you want to go further you can install LineageOS and strip out Google Play Services. That's not an available option on iOS.

zepto 6y ago
The fact it’s not available on iOS means users have the choice.
- hda2 6y ago
  Not iOS users they don't.
  - zepto 6y ago
    They don’t have to choose iOS. If they want a choice of stores, or to replace the OS, they can buy a different phone. There are many people who correctly think Apple knows better than they do about what software is safe, and for those people, iOS is a good choice.

lern_too_spel 6y ago

On any Android device, if you don't log into a Google account, you don't send your personal information to Google.