XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:44:35 -0500, Tom Elam wrote:   
      
   > On 2/12/2026 2:02 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:38:58 -0500, Tom Elam wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2/11/2026 11:18 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>   
   >> Being a real computer, we are not locked down to one provider.   
   >>    
   >   
   > And how many Android users have any clue about this option?   
      
   Current total: 3.7 million “active” installs   
   . Also GrapheneOS estimates a quarter   
   million users   
   .   
      
   How many know about these? Far more, of course. And remember, this is   
   all by word of mouth -- none of these projects can afford   
   multi-million-dollar marketing departments to tell everybody how   
   wonderful they are.   
      
   Want to find out more? Go do your own research   
   .   
      
   > And what assurance do you have that these options are as secure as   
   > Google's version?   
      
   They leave out the closed-source parts that Google doesn’t want you to   
   know what’s in them. Does that help?   
      
   > My observation is that outside Apple, Microsoft and Google it's the   
   > Wild West out there.   
      
   You sound like one of those people from the old Soviet Union, totally   
   unaccustomed to free-market competition, seeing a Western-style   
   supermarket for the first time and being totally baffled by the need   
   for so much choice. “Wouldn’t it be more efficient to just have one of   
   each product?” you say. And we all know the answer to that, don’t we?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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