Market share declining albeit slowly, customer opinions of each device release declining over time as well & they are generally on the more expensive end of the phone market.
Most of the tech enthusiasts who helped them kick off by buying for modding like cyanogen don't go near them now.
They used to be my recommendation to non technical friends and I doubt that I am the only one who long ago changed to other recommendations.
The company needs to revisit their roots in my opinion.
I'm not arguing against that, I'm just saying that open source labelling isn't a feature to users.
The downstream effects of something being open source might acquire users, but being open source in of itself doesn't do anything except for a very tiny slice of the population. I'd say (in the US) more than half of the software developers I know use an Apple phone despite Android being much more open.
Whenever I'm on HN I feel like most of the posters here live in a bubble where they think most people are anywhere near as tech literate as they are. (You can really feel how this forum is SF-coded).
I am worried the partnership with a large corporate will influence security negatively.
Perhaps over time not immediate but execs and data harvesting, backdoors... I feel like it always goes one way and it's not the way a security conscious person would go.
I'm a DevOps/SRE/Platform engineer. 10 years experience including private equity firms (HFT and prop trading).
Location:
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Dual citizenship with Ireland & UK
Remote:
Any, full remote, hybrid or in office.
Willing to relocate:
Within reason, have mother in hospital so no more than a cheap, regular flight away - unless travel is irregular, then anywhere works.
Technologies:
Script in bash, python and if necessary groovy. Picking up Golang.
Worked with bare metal including data centre creation, hybrid cloud and mainly AWS with Azure and Alibaba exposure.
I prefer ansible for my IaC but I have experience with puppet, saltstack & Terraform for cloud provisioning
DBs I'm no stranger to InfluxDB or even KDB+ but I'm no DBA and main proficiency is with Postgres. Splunk including proper querying to a standard Quants were happy with. Elastic, can use, have experience, less fun to work with.
JIRA and confluence, heavy on the plugin side of things but anyone can design and manage those properly.
Monitoring wise check_mk, zabbix, datadog all experienced with to the point of monitoring HFT applications and hardware like custom NICs/FPGAs due to the race to zero.
Most of the tech enthusiasts who helped them kick off by buying for modding like cyanogen don't go near them now.
They used to be my recommendation to non technical friends and I doubt that I am the only one who long ago changed to other recommendations.
The company needs to revisit their roots in my opinion.
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