@asko Understand where you're coming from. Design is absolutely a part of user experience. But frankly, I could do most of what I need to do from a text terminal and an old smartphone, including syncing. It's not a great user experience, but it's still quite useful.
User privacy and freedom aside, the Librem 5 has good enough specs and hardware / software features you can't get anywhere else, which made it worthwhile.
It's a niche, to be sure, but I think it might be a sustainable one.
@asko That's a relevant perspective. I'll never get my wife to give up her iphone. But since the Librem5 runs Linux, there's plenty of apps already available, as well as any web apss which use HTML5. I don't need games, netflix, or any software specific to either the Android or iOS ecosystems (though Android apps will likely run on it evebtually). So it's going to be just as useful as my current phone.
Honestly, to me, it was more of a question of user experience than usefulness.
So, I ponied up the cash for a #Librem5 phone. Looks like they'll get the faster CPU.
I've asked myself several times of its worth replacing my S5. It's a step down in tefms of tech. But most of the lack of features is in the software than the hardware. Which means, two years from now, when that new Google Pixel is no longer supported, my Librem 5 will be better than it is when I get it.
Here's hoping.
#Netmarketshare reports #Linux at 6.91%, taking a greater share than OSX.
At first, I thought it was a mistake, but IE and Edge lost substantial share to Firefox and Chrome, which correlates wit the desktop trend.
What happened??
So I have the opportunity to present a half hour talk on open source software for a "lunch and learn" session with area businesses. .
I've got a few ideas, but I don't know much about how FOSS really applies to small / medium businesses.
Any thoughts on relevant selling points would be much appreciated.
So here's a fun question...
What if #Microsoft open-sourced the #Windows desktop?
Would it really hurt them?
Would it really help #Linux?