alternative to Android and iPhone
by jamescc42 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6JNKD)
smartphones are ubiquitous and pretty vital to all of us at this point with our data etc. we essentially have only two options being Apple's iPhone and Google's Android. I know that Android is a Linux.
Google will absolutely be taking their own direction and especially with their machine learning you can guarantee that they're going to try to bake it into Android sooner rather than later. I am aware that the Android open source project exists and that there have been derivatives that people have tried to make. but it is still very much dependent upon Google and determined by them. obviously there are a lot of people who do not want to use an iPhone. we need another option. I am aware that Ubuntu made a concerted effort and that they abandoned it though somebody has recently picked it up.
there is the Linux foundation which essentially acts as a independent neutral overseer of the kernel and os development. lots of good smart people contribute to that. Linux of course you all know is used for our world's computer infrastructure. we need something like this for our smartphone operating systems. I don't think I need to tell you how important that is. but I do know that I'm not the person to do it. and I've been out of the Linux community for a very long time. so I don't know what else and who else might be thinking about this particular issue. but any of you reading this will you please bring it up at conferences and in other forms and with the people who can and will make something like this happen.
we have all been complaining about our smartphones for a very long time. the difficulty that has been made to get rid of things that we don't want on them and to be able to access the hardware freely without regard to manufacturer and carrier etc. this next step is important.
thank you
james
Google will absolutely be taking their own direction and especially with their machine learning you can guarantee that they're going to try to bake it into Android sooner rather than later. I am aware that the Android open source project exists and that there have been derivatives that people have tried to make. but it is still very much dependent upon Google and determined by them. obviously there are a lot of people who do not want to use an iPhone. we need another option. I am aware that Ubuntu made a concerted effort and that they abandoned it though somebody has recently picked it up.
there is the Linux foundation which essentially acts as a independent neutral overseer of the kernel and os development. lots of good smart people contribute to that. Linux of course you all know is used for our world's computer infrastructure. we need something like this for our smartphone operating systems. I don't think I need to tell you how important that is. but I do know that I'm not the person to do it. and I've been out of the Linux community for a very long time. so I don't know what else and who else might be thinking about this particular issue. but any of you reading this will you please bring it up at conferences and in other forms and with the people who can and will make something like this happen.
we have all been complaining about our smartphones for a very long time. the difficulty that has been made to get rid of things that we don't want on them and to be able to access the hardware freely without regard to manufacturer and carrier etc. this next step is important.
thank you
james