12-14-2020, 03:04 AM
when i bought postmarketos convergence package. i thought i was playing casino risk, maybe this is total waste of money, but i'm so sick of google and apple duopoly, so let's give it a try. risk was worth it, and it seems as of now i'm not going to buy yet another android phone. pinephone is still in alpha stage having serious bugs. if even basic calls and texts work then i don't need to buy another so called "smart"phone. one big problem with pinephone is battery life.
i definitely like the idea of pinephone. hardware is transparent and software is opensource. partitioning is straight forward, which is not that clear on android devices. as a short version, android devices' bootloaders is too locked. in my view smartphones should have had this open idea in the beginning.
"i have nothing to hide" attitude, i don't think government and corporations should know everything, especially corporations. as a example, in russia, do you want everyone to know you oppose current president. however, i'm more worried about corporations' data collection, which is just plain wrong. government may have right to know some stuff but corporations do not. besides even if information is allowed to be collected, corporations makes money of it. do i want to enrich google, apple, facebook and others with my data.
i definitely like the idea of pinephone. hardware is transparent and software is opensource. partitioning is straight forward, which is not that clear on android devices. as a short version, android devices' bootloaders is too locked. in my view smartphones should have had this open idea in the beginning.
(12-13-2020, 05:41 PM)Zebulon Walton Wrote: As it happens I was having this very discussion with a friend today, showing him the Pinephone. His reaction was pretty much that he couldn't see the point because it can't run the "apps" that he wants and the camera is not much good. That's going to be what most people think. They don't care about being tracked, instead going with the attitude "I have nothing to hide". (Orwell's Inner Party would be proud.)!irony warning!, "this pinephone does not have whatsapp". who wants facebook owned whatsapp!?
"i have nothing to hide" attitude, i don't think government and corporations should know everything, especially corporations. as a example, in russia, do you want everyone to know you oppose current president. however, i'm more worried about corporations' data collection, which is just plain wrong. government may have right to know some stuff but corporations do not. besides even if information is allowed to be collected, corporations makes money of it. do i want to enrich google, apple, facebook and others with my data.
