> Am 23.09.2019 um 17:03 schrieb Benson Muite <[email protected]>: > > > On 9/23/19 5:28 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: >> On Saturday 21. September 2019 15.48.50 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >>>> Am 19.09.2019 um 18:18 schrieb Paul Boddie <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>> I dislike the tone of technology reviews, especially when they talk of >>>> "last year's" technology. They start to sound like fashion industry >>>> gossip ("last season's collection") with largely the same implied level >>>> of regard for the planet, workers' rights, and so on, unless carefully >>>> worded and qualified. >>> Well, if there is no technological breakthrough progress any more (displays, >>> cameras, processors, RAM sizes etc. do not show significant improvement any >>> more), the only way vendors can tell they have something new and get >>> customers to replace devices is by changing the clothing every year - this >>> is called "fashion". And making them less durable. Seems to be a >>> fundamental law of economics... >> But very bad for the planet. As it is, however, people can always be >> persuaded >> to upgrade by just making the software more demanding, so as I noted, we have >> the same kind of upgrade culture as the one Microsoft and Intel cultivated. >> >> I have tried to get in touch with a researcher I very vaguely know who has >> done work on sustainable phones, inquiring about considerations of software >> longevity which were generally absent in the research being done, but I >> haven't had any response yet. It seems to be a blind spot: people care about >> how the physical product is made, claiming a long lifespan, but then the >> software makes the device obsolete. >> >> [...] > Any thoughts on KaiOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS)?
Interesting. It seems to have similar goals as our QtMoko or my QuantumSTEP, but we never got investments by Google or a telco operator :) Key drivers of this project (and I think the same is for Sailfish) are telco operators who try to stay independent of Google and Android and offer customers an alternative. _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.tinkerphones.org
