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Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by ianai on Sunday June 18, 2017 @04:31AM (#14579648)
I'm more curious what he's switched to if not Apple.
Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by hasbot on Sunday June 18, 2017 @11:00AM (#14580919)
He says in a reply:

Laptop, SSH, paper :). I wasn't a heavy mobile user in general and only got interested in cellphones when they became more PC-like. So with 3.5 years in F-Droid, I only have about 4-5 years of actual mobile phone usage. Coming from a more old-school unix environment, reverting back.

Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by romanovcode on Monday June 19, 2017 @04:56AM (#14585479)
So he basically doesn't have a phone? That's pretty hardcore.
Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by franciscop on Monday June 19, 2017 @06:50AM (#14585911)
Actually not so much, I basically only use the phone on the move, 99% of the other things I do them in my laptop. I even do more laptop calls (skype, hangouts) than phone calls.
Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by kerneis on Monday June 19, 2017 @07:41AM (#14586138)
At least not a smartphone. That's my case as well, very happy with my dual-sim Nokia 216. The internet can always wait until I'm back home or at work.
Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by Markoff on Monday June 19, 2017 @09:24AM (#14586705)
for me personally smartphone is just more convenient than telling out laptop, opening it, waiting for start compared to smartphone always running at hand and seem by looking at statistics most of the people are in same boat and PC is dying
Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by squarefoot on Monday June 19, 2017 @11:10AM (#14587530)
He probably doesn't use a smartphone, as some of us don't including myself, given the total impossibility to achieve decent privacy and data security under any mobile operating system.
Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by vanderZwan on Monday June 19, 2017 @05:29AM (#14585605)
I wonder what he thinks of the Pandora or the Pyra
Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by torgoguys on Sunday June 18, 2017 @09:23AM (#14580542)
There is now a reply where he explains he's more or less switching to just using his laptop for any computing tasks he would have done from his phone.
Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by lauretas on Sunday June 18, 2017 @11:02AM (#14580926)
Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by ianai on Sunday June 18, 2017 @11:53AM (#14581172)
It really seems like he has a point. I definitely agree that they've become too centralized and rife with privacy issues.
Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by brador on Sunday June 18, 2017 @05:21AM (#14579791)
Could be Ubuntu OS, or, more likely, an old school dumb phone.
Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by msh on Sunday June 18, 2017 @06:39AM (#14580026)
The dumb phone would be less free than Android.
Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by saghm on Sunday June 18, 2017 @12:49PM (#14581527)
Yeah, but it probably wouldn't be used for much besides phone calls and maybe texts, as opposed to email, web browsing, etc. as well.
Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by distances on Sunday June 18, 2017 @06:53AM (#14580087)
Ubuntu phone was discontinued. Sailfish more likely, I'd say.
Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by mondoshawan22 on Sunday June 18, 2017 @07:27AM (#14580183)
The phone was, yes. Ubuntu touch is still alive and kicking as UBports, though. They just got OTAs working, too!
Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by oliwarner on Sunday June 18, 2017 @05:19AM (#14579780)
> don't you worry, I don't use any less free systems either

I think that answers that.

Note to downvoter: That wasn't sarcastic. That does answer that. Chaps like Boris wouldn't go from a relatively open platform like Android where they built an open source market for it and then go to a completely-walled-in garden like iOS where they don't have the power to run whatever they want.

Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by raverbashing on Sunday June 18, 2017 @07:34AM (#14580205)
And the answer is?

Note: the question is what did he switch to?

Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by jwilk on Sunday June 18, 2017 @03:06PM (#14582271)
From the HN guidelines:

Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by zem on Sunday June 18, 2017 @05:50AM (#14579869)
my guess was jolla/sailfish
Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by forvelin on Sunday June 18, 2017 @07:16AM (#14580151)
Probably a feature phone.

Jolla could be nice as well,if he could find one.

Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by askvictor on Sunday June 18, 2017 @06:11AM (#14579934)
Possibly stopped using mobile devices?
Re:So long, farewell and goodbye by daggerr on Sunday June 18, 2017 @07:10AM (#14580131)
Maybe just dumbphone, the rest can do laptop/PC.