Ubuntu phones to ship this year from two manufacturers

Platform will be the "open alternative to Android."


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Sajuuk[/url]":1dgxiicg]As far as I understand their UX, everything (and I mean everything) is gesture based - including switching between apps, going back, and going home. Gesture based UX is really cool to use and really cool to show off (when you're already experienced with it), but it inherently hides essential functions of the OS which is always an iffy proposition. Blackberry learned this the hard way

There is nothing hidden about the "home" or "back" gestures. There just isn't a button mapped to them. This is hardly hidden. Hell, anyone I hand the phone to figures it out after I say "slide up from the bottom". Good for Ubuntu if they use that strategy.

Congratulations, you answered your own question right there.

 

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RAOF[/url]":1sdjf4cd]Or you could use the provided configuration GUI to turn off those remote searches, of course.

Preferably this is the way the situation would be handled. I'd like to monitor what the phone platform does for a few days though to see what it requests. I have high hopes, not high trust.

The GUI control is less than satisfactory. A bug can make it appear off when it isn't. User config error can result in the same. A software update could re-enable unknowingly. There are so many problems with relying on a simple switch like this. The only thing that would comfort me would be being able to uinstall it. I'd like to see privacy-invasive stuff like this confined to one package. Then user can uninstall that package. But Canonical is not packaging in this way.

I don't see how any of your arguments couldn't be just as easily be applied to your "uninstall package" solution.

A bug can make it appear uninstalled when it isn't. User config error can result in the same (I guess you mean clicking the wrong switch? well the equivalent would be uninstalling the wrong package). A software update could reinstall the package unknowingly.

Basically every problem you have with the switch solution also applies to yours - if you don't trust Canonical you're already out of luck.