Considering alternatives mean paid...
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| JaseP Feb 16, 2014 1:14 PM EDT |
Considering alternatives mean PAID alternatives, like paid navigation apps on smartphones (a rip-off, considering there are free navigation apps), I'll happily take Google "forcing" their apps onto phones/tablets... |
| linux4567 Feb 16, 2014 10:02 PM EDT |
With Android you pay with your data rather than money. Also there are now other better free alternatives such as Firefox OS and Sailfish OS. |
| JaseP Feb 16, 2014 11:35 PM EDT |
The OS,... sure. But for; mapping services, calendaring, email/soft-phone/sms integration??? It's difficult to assemble packages that do everything a Google account can accomplish on an Android device can on some other platform (I've tried, even BEFORE Android was big)... And then you have a difficult time integrating them... Sure, someone may come along and do all of this,... But I won't hold my breath. |
| notbob Feb 17, 2014 11:17 AM EDT |
> But for; mapping services, calendaring, email/soft-phone/sms integration? That gobble has these features, and restricting them may inconvenience you, is merely an indicator that you've allowed yer life to be defined by them. I eschew gobble and suffer not. Mapping? Openstreetmap.org. email? Certainly not gmail. Calendaring? I got one on the wall. phone/sms? What madness drives ppl to txt on a phone, I'll never understand. It's like putting on blinders before using binoculars. It all reminds me of little boys in The Land of Toys (Pleasure Island). It's all fun and games ....if you don't mind the donkey ears. BTW, I find it hilarious the author bemoans gobble's dominance, then sez you can reach him thru gobble+. ;) |
| linux4567 Feb 17, 2014 8:50 PM EDT |
@JaseP: Sailfish OS can run any Android app so you don't have to miss out on your favourite apps that spy on you if you can't live without them. |
| JaseP Feb 18, 2014 1:33 AM EDT |
Nice to know that Maemo/MeeGo/Mer has evolved into something,... Too bad I don't have the right devices to run it... and there doesn't seem to be an X86-32/64 port that is not meant for specific hardware... I've got a couple of nice older machines that'd it be really great on... |
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