This is more about the hardware manufacturer and the service provider, not the operating system. FWIW, Samsung is very friendly. I have a Motorola. They're relatively neutral. Verizon is not friendly. Apple is an enemy. T-Mobile is neutral. Cricket is friendly (so far).
I can't imagine anyone _not_ rooting their phone and replacing their operating system at will. It boggles my mind that so many tech savvy people enslave themselves to a corporate cabal. Owen Densmore wrote at 06/07/2011 09:27 AM: > [Note: widened from wedtech to include friam, see attached.] > >>From /.: Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban > http://goo.gl/ynL9A > > I believe I now am in the same spot with android as with iphone: I will have > to at least jail break any phone I own, and heck, might as well unlock it > while I'm at it. > > This surprises me. Android was to be the hacker's delight, a Google "no > evil" phone that allows me to use it as I please. Not a sissy iphone where > Apple rules my life and limits my options. > > After yesterdays announcement of the iTunes cloud (where they store not only > your bought media in their cloud, but any CDs you rip and have in iTunes!!), > I'm rethinking just how free Google etc are over Apple. > > I still plan to complete my conversion to gmail, and the Google ecology has > lots of advantages. But Apple is gaining fast with everything (mail, > contacts, calendar, music, bookmarks, ...) in iCloud and accessible > everywhere. > > If this works, and that's a big IF, and if they can be cross-platform .. at > least windows if not linux/unix (a bigger IF!), Google will start to look > like a chaotic mess of non-integrated parts while Apple, once again, solves > the user's problem. > http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/demoted -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
