On the plus side, it'll run Linux, which has a pretty darn good selection of "apps" and "app ecosystem" (package managers). I know that's not quite the same th

On the plus side, it'll run Linux, which has a pretty darn good selection of "apps" and "app ecosystem" (package managers). I know that's not quite the same thing, but it's not like they're inventing a new OS platform from scratch: apps developed for Linux will run on the phone, and apps developed for the phone will hopefully repay their developers' time by being compatible across many Linux devices, especially when/if other full-Linux phones become available. (A caveat - I don't know how much of this is hardware-dependent, e.g. the CPU.)