Comment by sametmax
8 years ago
They tried everything, except for open standards, foss, focus on user privacy or anything that would have have made them different.
8 years ago
They tried everything, except for open standards, foss, focus on user privacy or anything that would have have made them different.
That is pretty much the reason I didn't have a Windows phone. I would have considered it if it actually did promise privacy.
Free phone sounds nice, but tinkerers like me don't want to apply and get the approval lottery for shit. We wanted cheap phones. The Android ecosystem at that time was already matured to the point that you can get cheap no frills, no worries if you break it secondhands. It was an obvious choice when I could get a secondhand Android phone with all the stuff I could tinker with for $100, and that also gave me the unexplored freedom to get any ROM I want. I remember porting Cyanogenmod 9 on my shitty 2 year old OG Motorola Droid, and control every aspect of it.