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Very interesting section on China: > ”There is no such culture in these parts of the world [Finland], but there are people that are installing new operating sy
by Brakenshire 13y ago
Very interesting section on China:
> ”There is no such culture in these parts of the world [Finland], but there are people that are installing new operating systems on their devices. In China it is mainstream. About half of the smartphone buyers are upgrading their older or cheaper devices with a better version of Android.”
> “For us it is a possibility to distribute our operating system especially in China. There are websites that already distribute [OS] software and the Chinese customers are doing it so we don’t have to teach them. We just have to get Sailfish to those websites – and to make sure that Sailfish will run on different kind of Android devices.”
Half of all smartphone buyers are flashing their devices with new operating systems? That seems astonishing.
- jckt 13y agoI know quite a few of these people and most of them say that when they do that it feels like they're using a totally new phone, without much cost.
- Zigurd 13y agoChina is getting richer but there are so many people and so many with what is still a very modest income compared to the price of a smartphone I'm not surprised that aftermarket ROMs area big thing, even mainstream. I'd bet that lots of shops will do such an upgrade for you for a small price, so widespread expertise in rooting a phone is not required.