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You choose them because you have a google-free android phone, with all the apps working, without having to do it on your own. Their business model is to *sell*
by hinata08 4y ago
You choose them because you have a google-free android phone, with all the apps working, without having to do it on your own.
Their business model is to *sell* phones with that iodeOS, a fork of Lineage, even if everything is on gitlab and you're welcome to install it on your own.
I'm an IT engineer who likes free code, but I'm not really into Android, and I only have so much time. I wouldn't have installed Lineage on my own.
So I wouldn't have had a free version of Android without iode.
The phone I had from them was also refurbished by a local company, which was nice. It's still more eco friendly and responsible than getting a new phone from a big SW company.
I'm just annoyed the company replied to none of my support requests, that I submitted on the website
(I wanted comments on the IMS that wasn't working, I wanted a duplicate of the sale receipt, and I wanted the IMEI to be able to report my phone stolen.
I had to get my support from nerds on Discord, for the former.
- hinata08 4y agooh no, they replied, but my mail provider has obviously put the messages in the infamous spam folder. On that terrible disappointment, back to the shop to get a new phone And let's whitelist their email, so that iode.tech gets a better score.
- vince_at_iode 4y agosorry for you :-)
- amelius 4y ago> You choose them because you have a google-free android phone, with all the apps working, without having to do it on your own. Now it starts getting interesting. Will it also run my banking app? Or is there some crypto mechanism keeping that from happening?
- hinata08 4y agoI did run my bank app There were F-Droid, Aurora Store, MicroG, Déjà Vu and the Mozilla Location services among others, so it was able to run about any app.
- Tijdreiziger 4y ago> Their business model is to sell phones with that iodeOS, a fork of Lineage, even if everything is on gitlab and you're welcome to install it on your own. I'm an IT engineer who likes free code, but I'm not really into Android, and I only have so much time. I wouldn't have installed Lineage on my own. /e/OS does that too.
- fmajid 4y agoI'm not into Android at all (iPhone user), but I had no problems installing LineageOS on a Pocophone F1 I bought specifically as a second travel phone for its LineageOS compatibility, beyond Xiaomi's obnoxious process for unlocking the bootloader. The limited hardware support, specially for reasonably priced models with 5G, is a serious concern, and the limitations with mobile banks coopted by Google into refusing to work on alternative ROMs a big issue as well.