> It's time to bring fanny packs back, but please don't turn them into power banks.
They're already on their way back. Several friends in Colorado have told me they've been thinking about buying one or have bought one. I'm also starting to see college kids here at U Florida wearing them around.
The ugrads I've seen have been wearing them around the waist, but now that you mention it, I do recall seeing older folks (older than ugrads, I mean) wearing them over the shoulder.
Not being in a position to bully everyone else really improved their attitude. Microsoft is my friend now! They wouldn't abuse us if they were on the top again, right?
So what company that once it gets into a position to bully won’t? Google forced manufacturers not to ship phones based on Android forks if they ship Google certified phones. This is the same thing that Microsoft got in trouble. They didn’t allow OEMs to ship alternate operating systems if they wanted to ship computers with Windows.
They can ship Google certified phones based on Android forks as long as they pass CTS[1]. You don't really think the Galaxy phones are built on top of unmodified AOSP, do you? Many[2] manufacturers[3] provide[4] SDKs[5] for their phones on top[6] of the base Android SDK.
This point doesn't support your first sentence then because this policy of the Open Handset Alliance existed before Google was in a position to bully, before Android had any market share at all. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Handset_Alliance?wprov=...
While it might not be an official requirement, being granted a Google apps license will go a whole lot easier if you join the Open Handset Alliance. The OHA is a group of companies committed to Android—Google's Android—and members are contractually prohibited from building non-Google approved devices. That's right, joining the OHA requires a company to sign its life away and promise to not build a device that runs a competing Android fork.
Besides, even in 2008, what other OS were OEMs going to license to compete with the iPhone? Windows Mobile?
In the time it took to write this comment you could have unpinned all those things from your start menu and never see them again, they aren't installed.
Most people customise a new computer in a myriad of ways, how is the start menu any different? Of course it is sleazy marketing dreamt up in a management meeting, but you chose to accept the defaults here.
It's like knowingly buying a bike with a flat tire then complaining to everyone it doesn't work instead of simply pumping up the tire.
New things get added over time. Cortana suddenly starts "reminding" you of all the neat things she can do. Windows tells you your computer is at risk because you aren't sending all your data to One Drive.
Sure you can disable some of them but its like whack-a-mole and your an update away from a new nuisance. The speculative app installing (which does get actually installed) requires a registry change to disable - not exactly user friendly.
I paid extra for a "professional" operating system. Why am I getting candy crush?
I can't find the article but I remember reading how Google is closing the platform more and more. That's the reason why many people are forced to use MicroG since things are routed through Google Play Services. So in many ways you already "need" Google in your phone for certain apps to work correctly. There's also a rant from CopperheadOS' twitter about how Google make things worse and worse for ROM developers.
I would love to see an updated article about this whole subject.
The alternative is an un-updatable phone that is full of security holes. Remember the good old days when somebody would find a uxss in webview and we'd all just shrug our shoulders at the 80% of users who'd never see the fix because the oems wouldn't ever push updates to people?
You can use version control, options persist between restarts if you accidentally change something, you can use comments, easily make new profiles that share the same settings
Or you can keep complaining until every piece of software have like 3 options inside a hamburger menu
That's why I only use Android with ROMs like LineageOS where I can block apps from opening on startup and running in the background (you also get more granular permissions for free).
Isn't a "little" insecure having to rely on random kext and random internet files to run your base system? Or are they always open source or something? I know very little about MacOS
> It's not that different from running any software from the internet.
I don't run "any" software as root or with even more privileges, so I would classify random kexts from the web as a highly critical threat. Of course you could be victim of an exploit even without willingly granting privileges but that's not really relevant.
I would be even more worried about DNS/domain hijacking if the HN stories I hear are true. Not only technical issues but social engineering of the domain ownership.
Whatever you do (custom domain or not), you're always exposed.
It's just EEE, they'll slowly introduce better features (with a colossal marketing budget) and after they gain the userbase back they'll close it down. Until I see a solution for this problem I'm not going to advocate/adopt any of these services.
