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The phone is going to be niche regardless, and its likely users will be able to solve those problems their own way if GNOME apps are usable. Everyone is differ
by ams6110 8y ago
The phone is going to be niche regardless, and its likely users will be able to solve those problems their own way if GNOME apps are usable.
Everyone is different, but for me, 90% of my phone usage is: phone calls (I have no landline phone at home), text messages, and maps/navigation.
If there's no maps, I'd pass on this phone.
Calendar, notes, calculator, etc. are relatively unimportant for me.
Other apps are relatively unimportant to me. I don't use Facebook or other social media on my phone. I don't use ride-hailing services. I don't rent bikes or scooters. I don't use my phone to make retail payments. So none of that stuff matters to me.
- kgwxd 8y agoI'm willing to go back to paper maps, I just want a damn Linux phone and I will gladly pay more than iPhone prices for it.
- O_H_E 8y agoFortunately nobody will have to, as this phone supports the internet. In addition, I am sure there are many OSM maps that will work on it anyway.
- kgwxd 8y agoWhat about the location and GPS hardware and the security and privacy concerns that come with them? I'd rather just give up nav. Again, I'd still pay more than an iPhone without the location hardware. Could still do manual direction searching on the web, though I secretly want to go back to paper maps.
- megous 8y agoThat's only a problem if you don't control the software.
- int_19h 8y agoWhen you're using web maps, you do not control the software - they request location, you give access to it (because you want your maps to show where you are), and you don't control that location information once it leaves your phone.
- solarkraft 8y agoGPS is passive. Ideally they would just know which place you're requesting data about.
- megous 8y agoYou don't need webmaps. OSM data are free to download and render locally. Navigation devices have offline maps, typically.
- int_19h 8y agoIt would be really nice to get an OsmAnd port. Doubly so, since that would also make it available as a Gtk app on desktop Linux with minimal changes.
- tql 8y agoWhat are the chances that phone calls are unreliable in this mobile?