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How difficult is it really to make a truly open source phone ? All it takes is one dedicated hardware company and a software company coming together. Hackers h
by tn13 13y ago
How difficult is it really to make a truly open source phone ? All it takes is one dedicated hardware company and a software company coming together.
Hackers have built some amazing hardware in past and we all know about how open source communities have built some of worlds best software. Google, Apple etc. are building devices where they act as gatekeepers and charge us for all nonsensical stuff.
If you make a website there are a gazillion ways to promote it but there is only one way to promote and app. Pay some advertiser and you are totally at mercy of Google or Apple.
Firefox has been doing the right thing so far but they seem to take too much time.
- zphds 13y agoOpenmoko did that before Android. Sadly, it had a very lukewarm response owing to a not-so-good hardware.
- digitalengineer 13y agoThe baseband or "The secret second operating system that could make every mobile phone insecure". It's used by all phones and it's unsecure. Do they rely on the same baseband? Source: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/170874-the-secret-second-operating-system-that-could-make-every-mobile-phone-insecure http://www.extremetech.com/computing/170874-the-secret-secon...