Comment by aryonoco

I started on Android in 2008. I maintained my own ROM, complete with a custom kernel. Then I moved on to various AOSP forks. I ran the local Android Developers MeetUp and evangelised the platform for so many years.

This year I finally moved to iOS. I don’t feel happy about it, but they are now both basically as closed as each other, both are run by what I consider evil corporations.

If you told the teenager me in mid 90s, watching the internet bloom all around me, promising freedom and democratisation of access to knowledge the world over, that one day we would replace the open, standards based, federated, decentralised World Wide Web with two proprietary walled gardens, beholden forever to the whims of two companies, I would have thought you’re nuts.