The problem with Android is that it is pretty much Google. The freetard in me chafes at these limitations. They control the whole experience so you buy devices from them and you are allowed to run the software they let you. Our choices are pretty much limited to Apple and Google.Īpple is pretty straightforward. Seriously, where is the “Linux” of mobile? We don’t have it. The broader free and open source community totally missed the boat when it came to mobile. The problem is that more and more people are doing without a desktop entirely, and instead interact via mobile devices, so it is becoming more like “The Year of the Free Buggy Whip”. The hardest part was mobile.įor years people have been trumpeting each new year as “ The Year of the Linux Desktop“. It was difficult, but I managed to switch almost all of my technology to open, if not always free, options. This is a rather long post that I doubt will interest even one of my three readers, but as I expect a small subset of the population agonizes over technology choices as much as I do, perhaps someone will find it useful.īack in 2011 I decided to stop using Apple gear and switch to running as much free software as possible. A month later and after a business trip with the laptop, I am returning to Linux as my primary operating system. Learning quickly that it is very hard to manage the iPhone under Linux, I also decided to switch to a Macbook Pro. With the choices coming down to Google or Apple, I decided to return to Apple and I bought an iPhone. TL DR: With the demise of CopperheadOS, I’ve had to struggle to find a new mobile operating system.
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