On Jul 26, 2016, at 3:08 PM, Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@rushpost.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2016-07-26 at 15:35 -0300, juan wrote:
People could do lots of different things...if they owned their phones. But the phones are owned by apple. The phone users are owned by apple too, and by the US government.
Not all of them; in fact I think Android has taken the lead over iOS in mobile phones, though I understand if one balks at trusting Google.
Depending on which phone you have and which ROM you flash onto it, you can get an Android phone that is -mostly- independent of the Google ecosystem - an independent app store (F-droid), firefox as the browser, different mail clients (k-9, etc)…. different EVERYTHING, basically, but the core system for managing the UI, and connecting to networks/making calls/etc. I mean, yes, you are still running google code at the core of the thing - but you can get some distance. E.g. - https://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/liberate.en.html http://www.xda-developers.com/setting-up-android-marshmallow-without-google/ http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/using-android-without-google/ Over the years I’ve played with dozens of ROMs on a handful of different android phones… its fun screwing around with them. I’ve gotta keep an iPhone for work, and honestly the iPhone 5s looks like a piece of fucking junk compared to my nexus 6. John