Google has the market power and resources to provide this option though. Hopefully Canonical will be able to provide the equivalent too through the 'non-marginal' carriers.
Android has plenty of other issues, though I think its the best available mobile option. Excepting the sailfish phone, which is way beyond my budget. http://jolla.com/ Also relevant: Tizen, which is Linux Foundation backed, is also allowing customisation by manufacturers and carriers. Hence why samsung is trying it out for their smartwatch. Just pre-empting anyone who wants to beat on Canonical for trying to navigate the commercial realities of the mobile device market =) On 19 March 2014 23:20, Julien Goodwin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19/03/14 15:38, Jeremy Visser wrote: > > On 19/03/14 13:35, [email protected] wrote: > >> Namely that it would succeed because it wouldn't "marginalise" the > >> poor carriers out of customising their device and that access to the > >> filesystem would be "up to the individual manufacturer". > > > > Android sucks *precisely* because manufacturers customise the hell out > of it. Poorly, at that. > > Exactly. > > I (unsurprisingly[1]) run straight upstream Android on a Nexus 5. Until > I picked up a Samsung Galaxy Camera as a toy in late 2012 I hadn't > really tried to use a non-official Android, and was surprised at how > different it was. > > One thing that's also quite irritating is people installing > Cyanogen/whatever and espousing their favourite new features, and > inevitably at least one is something that is actually part of upstream > Android, just blocked or hidden by the manufacturer or carrier. > > 1: For those who don't know I work for Google as a Network Engineer in > Sydney these days > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main >
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