• CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 hours ago

    Good. Start by introducing a viable smartphone OS, because right now it’s down to Apple and Google, both from the US.

    Linux is a great place to start. Android is based on Linux. Even a fork of Android that doesn’t give Google any data would be a good place to start, but relying on AOSP — Google’s open source repository — isn’t ideal.

    • morto@piefed.social
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      4 minutes ago

      I’d say the priority should be to have hardware that allows changing the os, just like pcs. We already have a lot of functional mobile OSes, but with locked hardware, we’re still stuck with google and apple