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From F-Droid to emulators, here's who's hit hardest by Android's new verification rules (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I made a full comment in this thread. The bottomline is

  1. Sandboxing of resources both hardware (gyroscope, network devices) and data (photos, music) takes a lot of trial and error.
  2. There is a need for an ecosystem: i.e. apps sould be able to create calendar events, or access shared mediaplayer — also with permissions
  3. Developers need to adapt to the software ecosystem
  4. Hardware companies e.g. smart watch, projectors, TV need to adapt

It all takes years.

Linux phones are around for enthusiasts since Nokia N900 (which was/is a masterpiece) — yet nothing is remotely close to a mainstream phone.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    When I hear 'mainstream phone', in my mind I picture an iPhone or a Samsung. So yeah, Linux phones are definitely not achieving that this decade. Though personally I don't think they necessarily need to, at all.

    Point 4 is probably not happening any time soon, if ever, either. Rest is slowly being done and progressing, so I'm not seeing any major problems there.

    I don't think anyone realistically expects a Linux phone to compete with an iPhone in terms of ease of use, quality of life features or UI/UX. As far as I've seen, people just want a decent phone with basic functionalities like long battery life, good camera, easy to use and smooth UI, maps and navigation. All while being more private and secure, of course.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Mainstream phone as in "I don't need to debug it via terminal"

    The issue I'm pointing at: safe, long battery life, snappy maps while driving is what took AOSP more than 5 years.

    It would be very unfortunate to discard all that work and start from scratch.

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