PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

Re:PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartph... by crush-n-spread on Friday May 26, 2017 @08:27PM (#14428209)

The most successful business created industries for themselves. In ollieparanoid's case, he's creating a secure and supported OS that runs on any phone, and when you consider that 90% of phones are missing a secure and supported OS, then that market is pretty huge. If this works then his OS dominates any old, unsupported phone.

People don't care about open source and sustainability but they care a lot about not being hacked and having a phone that runs, and runs fast.

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Re:PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartph... by jolux on Friday May 26, 2017 @09:31PM (#14428428)

>People don't care about open source and sustainability but they care a lot about not being hacked and having a phone that runs, and runs fast.

You overestimate non-technical people. They're not afraid of getting hacked, they don't understand why they should be, and they don't get why unmaintained software is bad.

People don't give a shit to the extent that the device works well. Security is of course a huge part of that but you don't understand people well enough if you think there's a significant group that will sacrifice good UX and reliability for security and rapid updates. That's what nerds like us do.

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Re:PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartph... by andai on Saturday May 27, 2017 @05:13AM (#14429459)

Then we need a bigger nerd to make a nice UI for it.

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Re:PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartph... by jolux on Saturday May 27, 2017 @03:00PM (#14431399)

Definitely. But you tell this to some Linux nerds and they get worried that people will start using Linux for the "wrong" reasons or whatever.

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