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Do a video interview, get on several podcasts. Talk about Material design, about privacy, about android development in general. Have a blog and link to it. Pers
by andrewl-hn 12y ago
Do a video interview, get on several podcasts. Talk about Material design, about privacy, about android development in general. Have a blog and link to it. Personally talk to your users.
If some known person (open-source contributor or a startup founder) start using your product, ask for cross-promotion or endorsement of any kind.
Just be open. The more people know about you the more they are inclined to trust you.
- monokrome 12y agoThat doesn't solve the original problem. It's just indirection from it... You still don't know what's going on in the background.
- GuiA 12y agoIt doesn't solve the original problem as it is stated, but it still solves the original problem. 99.99999% of Firefox users will never look at its source code, they just trust the Mozilla brand.
- sha90 12y agoPeople don't trust Mozilla because they read the code, they trust Mozilla because they do exactly what was described above. They do the things that foster trust.
- tomp 12y agoPeople trust Mozilla because someone could read the code (and probably, many people do).
- seabee 12y agoPeople trust Apple and nobody else can read their code. This suggests open source is not necessary to build trust.
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- xyproto 12y agoNo, people choose comfort and projecting an image of status over privacy. It's not because they trust Apple.
- drdaeman 12y agoI'm afraid Firefox is so abysmal noone could comprehend the whole project's code. Guess, we could only review a tiny bits of it (I had briefly read sync-related parts of code in hope I could replace them with something saner and simpler, but ditched the idea) and hope others did the same for other parts.
- lacus 12y agoIt may not answer the technical question but it helps to resolve the human one, which is what their actual concern here is.
- baddox 12y agoIt's not indirection. It's signaling.