Originally Posted by
Rochester
Quoting SX-Rider for truth and for having posted almost exactly what I was going to post, sums up my views exactly.
Privacy.
No links or personal data to Micro£oft, Google or Apple at all unless I choose to have them.
Only slight disagreement, I would allow software updates BUT only if I have the option not to install them.
Ash: don't understand your suggesting Android. As I understand it doesn't Android = Google ?
My out of date Nokia Lumia Windows 8 phone (do NOT update to 10 whatever you do) continues to suit me fine, despite the intrusive and transparent links to Micro$oft, data mining for email addresses, personal details etc etc. Given they have had me on their books since Windows 3.11, '95, '98 etc they had all that stuff anyway. Just not willing to add to it in these increasingly data sensitive days.
In an ideal world I'd like a phone which would allow me to install my own preferred flavour of Linux. This has proved to be the answer with all my personal laptops and PC's, even for the techno-phobic Luddite other half.
Rumours persist of someone trying to build and market a Linux mobile but there doesn't seem any reasonable likelihood of it ever getting off the ground and, even if it did, likely prohibitive cost.
Oh well, pipe dreams and slippers..