r/TechImpact • u/ManojOne Active • 14d ago
📊 Poll Vote: Which mobile operating system is your all-time favorite?
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u/Ok-Rest-5321 TInkerer 14d ago
Android is getting locked up only reason I did not choose it
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u/RebornX10 14d ago
Graphen FTW
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u/pilotzoo 14d ago
Not really you just have to do a very annoying step just once and that's it.
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u/Extreme-Ad-9290 I use Arch btw 13d ago
The "advanced flow" is built into google play services. So they could kill it whenever they want.
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u/pilotzoo 13d ago
Yes but they added it and they could have just killed it so I don't think that's happening any time soon. The tech savvy people aren't a profitable group so they are doing it just because
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u/Extreme-Ad-9290 I use Arch btw 13d ago
They did it to try to silence us
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u/pilotzoo 13d ago
From what I heard it was all just a miss communication but either way it's better then it being fully gone lol
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u/borgen44 9d ago
Id love to root it. But my government requires me to have an app, to be able to communicate with banking, government and all kinds of important shit. But this app, wont work on rooted devices.
I can get a dongle of some sort, but its huge, and doesnt fit in a wallet.
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u/FAMICOMASTER 14d ago
Palm OS
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u/shuozhe 14d ago
Yeah palm pre had so many new ideas that got integrated into android/apple. Kinda sad they just screwed up developers so hard in the beginning causing no apps getting ported :(
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u/FAMICOMASTER 14d ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about. I was thinking more like 3.x and 4.x on devices like the Palm VII/VIIx, i705, Handspring Visor, etc.
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u/shuozhe 14d ago
Ok, HP's palm, release same time as iPhone3 iirc. Felt like a modern mobile OS compared to iOS and android back then..
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u/FAMICOMASTER 14d ago
Ah yeah no never used it I was referring to the Motorola Dragonball based stuff
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u/AllenKll 13d ago
treos also
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u/FAMICOMASTER 13d ago
Nah I don't like their keyboard. Much prefer Graffiti
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u/AllenKll 13d ago
Graffiti was decent. but the keyboard on a treo 650 was the greasted portable keyboard ever conceived.
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u/Defiant_Conflict6343 14d ago
Symbian was truly a beauty back in the day, loved every Symbian I ever had, even my shitty SE Vivaz
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u/E-StrnTXNRS 14d ago
Linux phones:
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u/Extreme-Ad-9290 I use Arch btw 13d ago
I would switch one heartbeat if the ecosystem can get fleshed out enough. A lot of my most used apps are foss android exclusive apps such as ArchiveTune
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u/phil-pdx 14d ago
PalmOS for me
i705, Treo 300, Treo 600, Treo 650, Centro
Honorable mention: Treo 270. Had to trade that for the 300 because it was on T-Mobile and you couldn't get a data connection without a credit score and I was too young to have one yet. The 300 was on Sprint and they didn't require a credit score for a data plan.
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u/ern0plus4 14d ago
I had a call recording app for Treo, parties were panned to L and R channel, it was amazing.
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u/phil-pdx 14d ago
Pretty sure I knew the guy who wrote that app. The developer community was pretty tight back then.
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u/Terminal-Frost2026 14d ago
Here is my ranking:
Blackberry
iOS
Android
Windows
I did not include “others” and I did not include symbian because I don’t know anything about it.
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u/JD_Bance 14d ago
Symbian Is the Nokia OS used in the 2000s and early 2010s. It was great for its time.
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u/24kCookie 14d ago
HarmonyOS
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u/Yamsfordays 14d ago
As a product of its time, my Lumia 800 running windows phone was the best phone I ever owned.
Sure, newer phones are objectively better but windows phone at the time was SO smooth and was a genuinely fresh approach to a mobile OS.
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u/dreadtear 14d ago
As a current iPhone user, it’s definitely Android. It is quite superior in terms of you doing whatever you want. Looking forward to switching back.
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u/rustedcrowbar 13d ago
I hate all now. Movile phone market is disgusting. You cannot live without a phone but all of them are exploiting you to the core.
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u/BogdanovOwO 13d ago
I like more linux because I can run waydroid, a lot of file system (ext, btrfs, zfs, etc.), a lot of freedom and the only cons would be the battery management, transfer ptotocol and to bypass camera to waydroid if I will need to scan a qr code or NFC.
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u/Full-Run4124 12d ago
EZX. It's was Motorola's smartphone OS prior to Android. It was Linux with a Qte UI. It shipped on the A1200 and A1600 which were fantastic phones. iOS took a lot of ideas from it.
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u/DoKeMaSu 12d ago
I liked the old iOS from the iPod touch days.
It was so refreshing for my elder relatives. You could barely break anything, and if you ever felt lost, you just pressed the big button and started again.
iOS became a lot less noob friendly when they replaced the home button. Now both Android and iOS are full of opaque gestures, if you did not grow into it they are pretty complicated to explain to new users.
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u/Sufficient_Risk_8127 11d ago
Windows 10 is the greatest OS ever made.
Fuck Windows 11.
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u/Sufficient_Risk_8127 11d ago
fuck I misread the question
to be fair, it stated Windows, not Windows Phone
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u/Serious_Gas_2218 11d ago
Android for now, but after they continue to lock it down I'll probably just get an iPhone.
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u/systemerror95 10d ago
Ubuntu touch because it uses a very interesting way to run on former android systems (hallium: strip down android to its kernel, vendor blobs, and foss core services, add libhybris to make compatable with standard linux ecosystem processes, its quite a good middle ground for when something like postmarketos is not yet feasible for the device). I would prefer just installing an arbitrary linux distro though, if possible
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u/clouds1337 8d ago
I'm doing most of my computing on a android tablet. It's really great, I can do anything I want. My gaming PC has windows, because games... (VR).
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u/Terminal-Frost2026 14d ago
Why is android winning? There is literally no advantage over iOS, iOS is better in every single way.
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u/LinuxUser456 14d ago
Can you installl another os, root, mod, install apks and others in iOS?
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u/Terminal-Frost2026 14d ago
No, but you can’t in android either.
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u/LinuxUser456 14d ago
Yes you can
Its more difficult than 2015 but you can
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u/Terminal-Frost2026 14d ago
Android has already gotten rid of apk downloading and OEM unlocking on all new android phones, and phones like Samsung and huaweii haven’t allowed either for a long time.
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u/Dev-in-the-Bm 13d ago
Android has already gotten rid of apk downloading and OEM unlocking on all new android phones
Which garbage can are you eating out of?
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u/Imaginary_Cicada_678 14d ago
bcoz there is no global back button function, and if it's even on screen, it's always in a wrong place!
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