Leaving Apple & Google: a global #eelo development status
▻https://hackernoon.com/leaving-apple-google-a-global-eelo-development-status-1ee11bf80d06?sourc
Last year, I decided to leave Apple & Google: I want to free myself from the smartphone duopole, I want to regain control over my data #privacy, I want to protect my freedom.At first, I thought I would just fork Android, add a better design, remove any Google stuff, select a few privacy-compliant web services and add them to the system.A little more than 6 months later, I realize that we’re building something really, really bigger than I had expected. This is made possible by the tremendous support I’m getting from many people around the world, and by a growing community of eelo contributors…[Note: this is a long read, if you don’t have time you can watch the full demo video at the end of this article]We’re in low budget mode, but things are going quite fast. And the main project’s (...)