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Re:Will Linux phones stay around this time? by salawat on Monday May 03, 2021 @06:11PM (#27031475)
Further nitpick: >Secure from whom?

The only person who seems to benefit from the way the security model works on Android is App Developers/carriers/manufacturers/Google. The user abstraction on an Android device doesn't even line up with a human user of the device, but rather it lines up with applications and software on the phone. I have seen nothing that more obviously tuned fpr turnimg a general computing device into a passive scripted experience regurgitator than Android.

You do not get the ability to organize arbitrary data. You need an app. You don't have a consistent experience of a filesystem, shared across all programs. Instead, you have a myriad of apps that do everything they can to hide the implementation details from you.

This does not "help" computer literacy to be most people's first encounter with a computer.

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