Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy first

Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by ignoramous on Monday February 24, 2020 @08:25AM (#22403764)

> I wish the article was a little more technically competent. It leaves out a lot of other important projects in this space like PinePhone, LineageOS, and even the proprietary alternative of Sailfish.

The article, submitted by u/indidea (Gael Duval) [0], sounds like a PR piece for eelo aka https://e.foundation/ which was subject to controversy not long ago [1].

Both https://grapheneos.org/ and https://lineageos.org/ are comparable alternatives, though /e/ really aims to go "full-stack" and comes pre-configured with alternative cloud-services to Google's.

[0] https://www.indidea.org/gael/blog/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21075675

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Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by ForHackernews on Monday February 24, 2020 @04:07PM (#22408459)

I really wish /e/ would give more credit to the https://microg.org/ project whose work they're piggybacking on. It's great they're trying to package this stuff and add a layer of consumer-friendly gloss, but it's frankly rude to not acknowledge key FLOSS contributions that make their work possible.

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Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by dangus on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:04AM (#22404548)

Thanks for pointing this out!

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