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Too bad it's Android. The mobile OS duopoly is killing all posibility of true innovation in smartphones.
by ramesh31 5y ago
Too bad it's Android. The mobile OS duopoly is killing all posibility of true innovation in smartphones.
- lucideer 5y agoTrue but the Fairphone company's core focus has been firmly on hardware & manufacturing sustainability and ethics, which I do respect. Ideally I'd like open source, sustainable, ethical hardware along with an open source, user-controlled independent OS, but in today's world, 2 out of 4 ain't bad. And I can understand one company not wanting to spread their priorities too thinly trying to solve every problem at once.
- asddubs 5y agoI do somewhat agree but there's only so many niches you can cater to at once before you doom your product to obscurity and failure
- rameshs 5y agoHow is this duopoly when atleast in Android the manufacturer can offer customisation as they see fit?
- Tepix 5y agoLooking at the struggles of Pinephone and Librem 5 and the various Linux flavours available for them it seems to be a really difficult problem to get something that has a good UI, a good feature set, is fast, stable and has good power management.
- joshuajill 5y agoI expect /e/OS and LineageOS ROM's will be released soon, around the time they start shipping. They work closely with both. Still Android, but AOSP based. Edit. confirmed it should be shipped with /e/Os as a choice. https://twitter.com/deivei/status/1443579458531692561 https://twitter.com/deivei/status/1443579458531692561