The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android

Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by nextos on Friday May 24, 2019 @08:53AM (#20000922)

BB10 is nice. Meego, as seen in the Nokia N9 was a really good UI too. Extremely elegant card interface, that meshed so well with a curved OLED screen. In 2011.

I would love to see an alternative to the iOS / Android duopoly. One way to go would be a better F-Droid ecosystem, and pure AOSP.

But perhaps, even better, a true Linux userland. Maemo lives on with Jolla. Although I hate they still have many closed components.

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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by aerique on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:48AM (#20002756)

Sailfish is the OS that runs on Jolla and nowadays also on the Xperia X and XA2 phones, although I heard it is not really available in the US (why?).

It's somewhat of an alternative to iOS & Android and feels like running Linux 20 years ago. You are making it harder on yourself.

Running Android apps with microg installed on it provides a decent fallback.

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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by ptx on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:07PM (#20004848)

Maybe the Purism Librem 5? https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

The UI is still very much a work in progress, though. But it's fully open source. Based on GNOME.

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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by shorts_theory on Saturday May 25, 2019 @11:23AM (#20009529)

To my knowledge, this is based on Plasma Mobile which shares some features from the KDE Plasma desktop environment and uses Qt for widgets.

https://www.plasma-mobile.org/

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