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Google offering ‘voluntary exit’ for employees working on Pixel, Android (9to5google.com)
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[–] 113 points 2 years ago (17 children)

I'd rather see phones with Ubuntu Touch, PostMarketOS, and Mobian OS's.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Same, I'm really tired of the annoying Android logic. I wish we could have a logical OS where we could manage our files properly instead of the filesystem mess we currently have with stuff all over the place.

    It didn't matter when the phones just had a few megs of storage, but you can carry some serious data on those things nowadays.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That was one thing that was wild about the Palm WebOS devices. It was just plain old linux. Games? They were just Linux games using SDL. Porting WebOS applications to desktop linux would have been nearly trivial. It would have just been amazing if Palm had pulled it off (alas, they chased a single design, Blackberry-style with small form factor, which missed just so much of the market). The users were utterly oblivious to all this (which is good) and it was just the best combination of capable of great things easily with a power user and able to run whatever the casual user would have needed.

    It was still before Android was pretty much a sealed deal in the market (2009 Android was still horribly rough) so it had a shot, but Palm just couldn't pull it off.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh man... What a great phone. Awesome multi tasking. Wifi charging standard. A back button that actually worked. A slide out keyboard. They just could spool up an app ecosystem quickly enough to gain traction...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    The apps may have been a bit anemic, but it was early enough that all the app stores were not great. They were certainly hurt by their initial "JavaScript only" stance.

    Really painful was that they had exclusivity with Sprint of all carriers. That was a really limiting decision.

    I think ultimately the singularly fatal issue was the HP debacle. The initial circumstances of the acquisition might have been ok for the platform. Thanks to some leaked material HP under Hurd actually seemed to have some vision for reinvigorating their consumer brand including an emphasis on former palm products. But Hurd was ousted and that whole initiative was canned and the new leadership killed the product line that they had just bought. Which was the most baffling call, they didn't make room for some other smartphone or tablet platform, they just shrugged and killed off a product that was their only shot at relevance for a clearly exploding new consumer market.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Why would you rather see that over graphene? Don't know enough about either

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Same. They just don't do what I need on my phone. Hopefully that changes, but PinePhone HW kinda sucks (poor battery life and audio quality), and most of the other phones w/ Linux support have some pretty serious caveats.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Imagine using Ubuntu Touch with Waydroid for Android Compatibility. Would be sick.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It works actually. I use this option daily.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Whoa that's cool!

    What device are you on?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Pixel 3a xl with unlocked bootloader.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh nice that it's still holding up. May I ask if that's your primary daily driver?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    It does what i need it to do, make/receive calls, surf the web and play videos when i'm out and about. For gaming i prefer Steam deck or PC. Other than that i'm not a lover of smart phones, in general i think they suck. If i could make/receive calls from a steam deck, i would trash my phone in a second.

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