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A comment on 50 days of postmarketOS.

Re:50 days of postmarketOS by Zigurd on Saturday July 15, 2017 @12:29PM (#14777466)
Google had to embrace OEM bloatware to get Android into the market and has been, so far without success, trying to stuff the evil OEM product management "we have to be distinctive" genie back into the bottle ever since.

Google is going to have to save Android Things from the same fate or we'll have billions of unpatched IoT devices.

Without diagnosing Android One, Nexus, Android Silver, etc. and why they all failed - not to mention Cyanogen - why do two guys with a Linux distro think they will succeed?

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Re:50 days of postmarketOS by ollieparanoid on Saturday July 15, 2017 @03:02PM (#14778312)
Who said, that we are "two guys"? I've started with this alone, before I considered pmbootstrap good enough. Since I've released it, we have 40-60 people hanging out in the irc/matrix channel, and a good bunch of them are actually contributing to either this project or other projects with which we share efforts.

The big difference compared with Android and everything based on Android/AOSP is, that we keep the effort for each device minimal. Read the introduction post for more information: https://ollieparanoid.github.io/post/postmarketOS/

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