GNU Free Twitter Clients for iOS and Android
Hi,
People ask me about GNU Free Twitter Clients for iOS and Android.
They are trapped by those OS, but they would use free apps.
Thanks.
Twidere and AndStatus are Android apps you can find in the F-Droid repository.
I am not sure about iOS. Although even if the source code were free, the concept of "GNU Free" doesn't really work for iOS.
Also maybe you should recommend GNU social to those people if you want :)
I know iOS is the wrost but there is no option for apple's devices.
So now, we only can use free apps if they exist on iOS.
What free apps can be installed on iOS devices?
Thanks.
The app store for iOS forbids libre software licenses, so anything in there is necessarily proprietary. The best you might be able to get from there is proprietary versions of programs that are usually libre. The only way to get a libre program running on iOS is by jailbreaking the system and finding the program from a third-party source.
Forger iOS, forget get some Libre Software from crappStore (Corsair Store). You can jailbreak yor iThing. The best way is get android device, root it, deblob (remove all google/device maker's blobbed backd00red spyware bloatware)(almost everything from Bloble Play is spyware and/or adware). Then, install F-Droid and you will be semi-libre.
I don't think that jailbreak make you more libre, and I think that it is not a very good idea. I had jailbroken iphone 3gs, iBad 3, iPhone 5s. But not worth it (jailbreak). Almost useless. And, for jailbreak, probably you need Macintosh OS or Winbugs.
So,
what is the option for those have bought apple tablets and phones?
Everyone deserves freedom.
If you want freedom, the only option if you have bought Apple tablets and phones is to recycle them and buy new devices. If you can't afford that... then, well, I don't know why you were buying Apple's overpriced hardware to begin with, but in any case, you're out of luck. There simply is nothing you can do other than jailbreak the phone or tablet and continue to use iOS in that state. At that point, it's in principle no worse than using a laptop with Windows on it, but also no better.
there is no other option, you must use iOS on Apple's devices - That's unnaceptable.
It's like I say that 'You must use Windows because you bought a PC' or 'You must use OSX because you bought a MAC'. :(
I know it is difficult to do because of the amount of different drivers and firmware. But it is the same with computers.
And WE must realize that Apple (and Samsung) devices are one of the most sold in our world. Thereforce, we would liberate a lot of people.
I don't think you understand. It is impossible to put a different OS on iThings. They are defective by design. "realizing" that Apple devices are "one of the most sold in our world" cannot change this.
Yes, it was impossible to be free in PC and MAC too, until really good free people did their work.
Someone should do it possible.
The problem is not from lack of trying. There are active measures to prevent installing another OS on the iDevices, whereas the PC has always let users install another OS (AFAIK, I am relatively young so maybe I am unaware of this). One of the futures we are actively fighting against is one in which the PC is as locked down as the iDevices.
I don't know,
Software and games have active measures to prevent their use but hackers can do their job.
And secondly, we achieved to revert the Windows 'Secure booot' policy. We should try the same with Apple.
> Software and games have active measures to prevent their use but hackers can do their job.
This is a completely different issue, and you're stubbornly insisting that an impossible job must somehow be possible. It's not. Cryptographically, mathematically, anyone other than Apple ever developing software that runs on an iThing before all iThings and people in existence today are long dead and decomposed is impossible. Attempting it is a complete waste of time.
> And secondly, we achieved to revert the Windows 'Secure booot' policy. We should try the same with Apple.
This is incorrect. Microsoft went ahead with requiring devices running Windows RT to be locked down in this way. It was only the version of Windows for x86 that did not end up requiring this, and I don't think making that a requirement for the x86 version of Windows was ever Microsoft's intention. In any case, sure, we should try to put pressure on companies not to do this. But that isn't going to change the fact that current iThings are no good, will never be any good, and belong in a recycling center where their parts can be put to good use. We also have to be realistic: Apple is not likely to stop locking down iThings. They've been doing so from the very beginning, and Apple fans clearly do not care. We would be better off focusing our attention somewhere else.
[SOLVED] OK, so briefly,
GNU Free Twitter Clients:
Android: Twidere, AndStatus (F-droid Catalogue)
iOS: None (No one has been able to introduce Libre Apps into iOS)
Thanks a lot. :)