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That wont help anything. Then you are just force to use Android, iOS, or Sailfish. It need to be a platform agnostic thing, else you're just hitching the fulcru
by tokai 3mo ago
That wont help anything. Then you are just force to use Android, iOS, or Sailfish. It need to be a platform agnostic thing, else you're just hitching the fulcrum of civil society on private company.
- izacus 3mo agoPrivate companies providing public services is really not a rare thing.
- pessimizer 3mo agoWho do you think said it was?
- roundabout-host 3mo agoExactly. The app is only inclusive if it is accessible over a standard protocol (Web) without "attestation", so that it works for any platform. If I release a GNU/Linux distribution tomorrow, I should be able to use the app on it with only some work on my part.
- pjmlp 3mo agoYou mean ChromeOS Platform.
- mghackerlady 3mo agoI don't disagree, but the eu needs their own mobile OS alternative in general so if they absolutely need to rely on a private company, it isn't an american one
- account42 3mo agoThis doesn't follow. Why is public infrastructure no longer a possibility as soon as computers get involved? We aren't talking about cutting edge innovation here anymore, mobile phones are boring standard devices.
- mghackerlady 3mo agoIt is a possibility, just not one I see as likely to happen. Could the EU fund a public phone company? Probably. Will it happen? Most likely not