Also user friendly and accurate reconditionned documentation ? 
As long as the name isn’t “eoogle” or “eooele”… or doesn’t contain escape characters that make it a pain to find in search engines… 
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Users can always write these guides and we will be more than happy to link them or add them to the documentation site.
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/ / (not a space, it’s a tabulator)
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Ouch, that joke popped into my head too. 
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Thank you all for your hard brainstorming! The winner is tilD or tilT or in short ~
;- )
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Very glad to hear that this will finally happen. The current name kept making spreading the message a challenge.
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I’m a new /e/ user…and actually don’t mind the current name at all. 
I’m just glad it exists and that I have my favorite device mostly free of surveillance capitalism now.
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Yes, but try to explain another smartphone user what you use and why and all that. A woman. – “What? How is this called? Eeeh? Slash - eeee - slash? What should that be?”
And try to use a search engine like DuckDuckGo to search for /e/ – which rank has the first real result for /e/?
True, it is difficult to find as “/e.” I always have to search for “/e/os” or “e foundation.”
Hopefully they’ll stick with whatever the new name will be, because multiple changes of a company’s name can lead to obscurity.
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I count two words which are totally unnecessary to make the (fair) point 
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When the day came when I had to explain /e/ to my girl I let Inga do the job talking about /e/ (in German). Was a good idea.
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I fully support what /e/ is doing but the /e/ name has made it difficult for me to share and introduce the concept to other people. I am delighted there will be a new name for /e/, but also sad that it was necessary to change the name in the first place.
Also, the “.foundation” domain is very unusual for people, it is not a common domain, and therefore people feel uncomfortable/hesitant about it. Then there is ecloud.global, totally different from “.foundation”, and equally uncommon for people.
People are simple creatures. People like their “.coms”.
People are also INCREDIBLY lazy, everything needs to be easy or else they won’t bother, even if it means their data, and that of their children and family, is being saved, analyzed, and used to manipulate them and society. It is sad but the truth.
/e/ MUST become really really really easy to adopt or else it won’t get further than a core group of tech-enthusiasts that have the self-respect, time, and, energy, not to tolerate google and their ilk.
My personal opinion (granted I have zero experience launching a mobile OS) is that /e/ would find greater adoption if it focused on performing 100% flawlessly on 2 or 3 mobile devices rather than trying to be usable on over 140 devices.
At the moment the forum is full of bugs/troubles people are finding on different phones, and even some people giving up. If /e/ worked perfectly on just a few devices it would be really easy for non-techie-people (i.e. the mass market) to switch over.
If I could hand a friend a phone and say “hey, this will be exactly like your old phone, but you wont be tracked” they would be interested. If I said, “hey, this will be exactly like your old phone, but you wont be tracked, but you will also have to work out a bunch of technical stuff every week” there is zero chance they would be interested.
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I think phones sold by /e/ with preinstalled /e/ OS are meant for those people. Especially Fairphone seems to be one of those.
We who use other brand phones or are installing OS ourself are kind of beta testers, but that’s ok. Just hopefully at some point each of us is able to give valuable feedback via gitlab which in best case improve /e/ for all (still on my todo list too, but have tried at least). I also think part reason /e/ is so popular is cause wide selection of devices it’s available for.
But for the name, really looking forward what it will be and is there something else that will be announced too.
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Maybe a few more… 10-15 if possibly given all the countries they are working in. Totally agree with you and see your POV though. Great perspective.
Nail on head. Well said Mike.
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As for me, I greatly appreciate the fact that /e/ can be easily installed on a wide variety of devices, even if some builds are unofficial. This allowed me, someone who has never installed a custom ROM before, to keep my favorite phone, but convert it to a more privacy-friendly device.
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Hi. Rebranding should give you an ad-space boost. So will a few simple things which you probably already provide. Read on.
This year I started watching your work, to see if the next version will offer what I need.
What would push me away is: enforced 2FA to use apps like a fitness app (whichever you provide), unreasonable app permissions (e.g. fitness app and the app store requiring my contact list to work, aka Samsung), apps aggressively sending notifications asking the user to do something while the option to quiet that down is disabled (aka Samsung).
I feel sick of and violated by my S10, but won’t just hop blindly to the next thing. As you can infer, I am less concerned with my privacy, but fully concerned about the control I have over the devce. It shouldn’t tell me how to use it, I should be able to tell it how it should work.
Of course, the hardware side of Fairphone is weak for my standards. I would like to see at least 8 GB RAM, and have the option for at least 512 GB storage space. High-refresh-rate screen (144 Hz)? Yes.
I partially agree. I for one damn like it its not a fu… com domain. I like to be separated from the commercial shit. I just hope they only change the name but then again to explain e is not that difficult.
No many OS who just supported a few devices are buried now. There are tons og devices and if you want to at least win some of them over the need of many is essential. People have to stopp using aoos for every shit and need to change even in behavior if they want to be at least almost free of control and tracking. There is no easy way exept for the installer.
Dont get me wrong I use simple language as I am sick of talking true a flower just so others are not offended.
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