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A comment on Jolla.

Re:Jolla by znowi on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @03:32PM (#6810934)
One of their implicit pitch is that Jolla is "surveillance free". And it can run Android apps. I think these two features are good enough to spark an interest. The spec looks also impressive. But freedom doesn't come cheap at almost $550. Nonetheless, a very exciting development.

I'm also waiting for Firefox OS to mature and produce more devices.

I can't wait to drop Android. Each release takes more freedom away from the user and gets increasingly integrated with whatever social, cloud, data milking services they have at their disposal.

Funny how freedom becomes a competitive advantage for startups against the big and evil Internet giants.

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Re:Jolla by sbierwagen on Thursday November 28, 2013 @01:59AM (#6813400) 

  One of their implicit pitch is that Jolla is "surveillance free".
Bullshit. Unless the phone can lie to the phone company about which cell tower its connected to, or some magic like that, it's not going to be anything like "surveillance free."
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Re:Jolla by king-coconut on Thursday November 28, 2013 @06:45AM (#6814142)
I think he ment that if you want to use the phone, you are not forced to use a ecosystem monitored by USA.
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