The current version of the OS has been built with open-source Android code to make Android apps compatible for the time being. It is designed to be used in all Huawei’s consumer products, including watches, televisions and vehicle systems, which makes it possible to integrate functions across devices. It is said to have 700m users and 2.2m developers.
The next version of Harmony is expected to drop all Android-linked code.
Harmony OS is an Android fork. Dropping all Android-linked code in an Android fork means removing almost all its code. I'm curious to know if Huawei have indeed developed their own OS, like Samsung's Bada, and if it really contains no trace of Android.
De-googling inherently causes functionality loss on Android because Google provides a lot of basic services via things like the Google Services Framework. It might be best for you to buy something cheap (secondhand Pixel?), install LineageOS, and then see how you like that before committing to something costly like an Xperia, especially since you're coming from iOS.
What if I shot a pistol over your head, would that also be considered non-violent?
Because it feels very much the same to me every time the DPRK launches these weapons and the J-Alert system goes off.
Premium phones make little sense, based on what I've seen everyone puts them in cases anyway. "Premium materials" are slippery and "premium thinness" results in insufficient battery capacity so accessories like phone rings get put on them, and people carry around external battery packs.
Why not just make a grippy, practical phone that I can use as a tool, with removable batteries, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and expandable memory?
It really does not. I use an external device connected via Bluetooth to achieve this on GrapheneOS, and others use home automation.
Edit: that thread isn't what I'm referring to. There was a larger one, perhaps on their github, with a link to a blogpost about why charge limiting "isn't necessary" being cited as the justification for why the rom doesn't have the feature. Either way, it's frustrating to read and best ignored.
It's likely because the developers are highly opinionated, and this is true even for topics they don't know very much about. See the entire discussion about implementing battery charge limiting in GrapheneOS. This makes for a lot of friction for people who would like to see more focus on usability in GrapheneOS as opposed to it being purely focused on security.
I stopped reading threads on their forums because the developers are so abrasive even though I still use the rom, because I don't mind the loss of usability compared to other roms. I can completely understand why there is a lot of negative sentiment around it though.
Statistical methods have been a longstanding mainstay in the field of AI since its inception. I think the trouble is that the term AI has been co-opted for marketing.
I had to double check when reading the article that this was indeed published by the Economist, particularly after this line:
How do they know this, besides perhaps an official from the CCP making a statement about it?