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Perhaps a better poll would've been "What phone OS do you think you'll be using in 4 months?". Anyway, I'd love to switch to Android but I can't come to trust
by runjake 13y ago
Perhaps a better poll would've been "What phone OS do you think you'll be using in 4 months?".
Anyway, I'd love to switch to Android but I can't come to trust Google at all.
Sure it's possible to use Android and stay relatively Google-free, but they are clearly trying to chokepoint that into impossibility with moves like Play Services, et cetera. Jean Baptiste Queru, the leading force behind the Android Open Source Project just quit and went to work for Yahoo, too.
I think vanilla Android is the better OS, but my options are limited: buy a Nexus phone (currently can't, nothing is available), buy a $650 phone with vanilla Android, or buy a subsidized locked carrier phone, fight the device's DRM and then hope Cyanogenmod or someone produces a stable ROM for it sometime soon.
Edit: Fixed Google->Yahoo goof.
- dallasgutauckis 13y agoI think you meant JBQ left Google to work for Yahoo!
- jkimmel 13y agoNitpick, but I think "went to work for Google, too." is supposed to say, "went to work for Yahoo!, too." On a related note, JBQ leaving really left a sour taste in my mouth. I remember him being a constant and positive force on the message boards back in the Android 1.x days; though I don't really know him, he seems like the kind of developer that doesn't jump ship without good reason.
- danieldk 13y agoI think he also worked for Be Inc. (the makers of the BeBox and BeOS) until the end. But it's too hard to tell, he might just've had a great offer from Yahoo as well.
- samspenc 13y agoCyagenmod looks really promising now. :)