Important clarification: it’s much more than this. HarmonyOS is not any more a skin or a version of Android. It’s its own OS.

HarmonyOS is IMO going to do to Android what BYD has done to Tesla and VW. This is another chapter in China declaring independence from the West.

This is great for Helsinkiites or whatever they call themselves.

Not sure why it’s big enough to make international news, though. Contactless payments have been a thing on public transport across Europe and Asia for decades now.

This has the feel of a marketing questionnaire. “Are you not ready to give a 5-star rating to Linux? Click here and we’ll get right back to you!”

Oddly enough, I’m struggling to think of a single experience or feature. The decisive benefit of Linux specifically and FOSS in general is something less tangible: it’s the feeling of empowerment and control you get. A computer of any kind is always something of a black box. Knowing that you have full control over it, even if you don’t understand everything, is revolutionary. I’m certainly not going back.

Empty Sweden should be much greener than this.

Translation for those not completely up to speed with the stakes of all this?

But who’s making these “updates”? Who’s doing the actual work of keeping the software secure? Mozilla is.

If everybody moves to a free-riding fork, Mozilla goes to 0% and there will be no browser let alone updates.