Google has the market power and resources to provide this option though. Hopefully Canonical will be able to provide the equivalent too through the 'non-marginal' carriers. Android has plenty of other issues, though I think its the best available mobile option. Excepting the sailfish phone, which is way beyond my budget. http://jolla.com/ Also relevant: Tizen, which is Linux Foundation backed, is also allowing customisation by manufacturers and carriers. Hence why samsung is trying it out for their smartwatch. Just pre-empting anyone who wants to beat on Canonical for trying to navigate the commercial realities of the mobile device market =) On 19 March 2014 23:20, Julien Goodwin <luv-lists@studio442.com.au> wrote:
On 19/03/14 15:38, Jeremy Visser wrote:
On 19/03/14 13:35, noah.odonoghue@gmail.com wrote:
Namely that it would succeed because it wouldn't "marginalise" the poor carriers out of customising their device and that access to the filesystem would be "up to the individual manufacturer".
Android sucks *precisely* because manufacturers customise the hell out of it. Poorly, at that.
Exactly.
I (unsurprisingly[1]) run straight upstream Android on a Nexus 5. Until I picked up a Samsung Galaxy Camera as a toy in late 2012 I hadn't really tried to use a non-official Android, and was surprised at how different it was.
One thing that's also quite irritating is people installing Cyanogen/whatever and espousing their favourite new features, and inevitably at least one is something that is actually part of upstream Android, just blocked or hidden by the manufacturer or carrier.
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