What I mean was, the old OS vendor ethos just doesn't exist any more - its no longer about giving the user the tools required to get the best value out of their computer, but rather give the computer the tools required to get the best value out of the user... RedHat/Canonical are real OS vendors. Microsoft is an also-ran ad-agency wannabe. Google: same. Apple: I give them a pass, but only because they seem to be taking privacy seriously - if only they'd give the user more control over what's going on with their devices, and stop doing things designed, clearly, to just sell more hardware ..
Ubuntu Touch never got off the ground, and Windows Mobile was a mess to try and load apps onto (having wasted waaaay too much time messing with that years ago).
On the topic of Ubuntu Phone, the reimplementation of Signal for it tried really hard to look exactly the same, except core features like calling and media were broken or had issues. https://github.com/janimo/textsecure-qml
What I mean was, the old OS vendor ethos just doesn't exist any more - its no longer about giving the user the tools required to get the best value out of their computer, but rather give the computer the tools required to get the best value out of the user... RedHat/Canonical are real OS vendors. Microsoft is an also-ran ad-agency wannabe. Google: same. Apple: I give them a pass, but only because they seem to be taking privacy seriously - if only they'd give the user more control over what's going on with their devices, and stop doing things designed, clearly, to just sell more hardware ..