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Re:Let's talk about safety of Pinephone by 0zymandiass on Saturday September 26, 2020 @09:47AM (#24598820)
If the conversation is

> Software engineering does not put safety first

I'm 100% agreed.

If the conversation is

> The PinePhone has less quality control than Android/iOS

It's patently false

I would parse the article as the second, as it's referring to a specific phone throughout

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Re:Let's talk about safety of Pinephone by Shared404 on Saturday September 26, 2020 @10:26AM (#24599085)
I read it as the first, with a side of "We need to do this or FL/OSS hardware is going to look bad".

And I concur about the second being patently false. I would guess that it has more overall tbh.

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Re:Let's talk about safety of Pinephone by megous on Monday September 28, 2020 @10:06PM (#24623520)
>> The PinePhone has less quality control than Android/iOS

> It's patently false

PinePhone is just HW. Android/iOS is SW. Comparison doesn't make sense. Maybe compare PinePhone to Huawei Honor, or Xiaomi and their HW testing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvRTY6sBPeE

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Re:Let's talk about safety of Pinephone by sangnoir on Saturday September 26, 2020 @06:43PM (#24602756)
> It's patently false

That's a strawman: author never compared to Android/iOS. What they did spell out,is that some of the code they found is unsafe (e.g. commented-out code to prevent false alerts, that was never being reimplemented in a safer way).

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