Actually, Linus does not ignore the smartphone space at all. In fact he refers to it by pointing out that people are likely to ONLY use cross compiling if the d

Actually, Linus does not ignore the smartphone space at all. In fact he refers to it by pointing out that people are likely to ONLY use cross compiling if the deployment is to a embedded device (which a smartphone is) because the native development on the embedded device may not be possible. <quote>End result: cross-development is mainly done for platforms that are so weak as to make it pointless to develop on them. Nobody does native development in the embedded space. But whenever the target is powerful enough to support native development, there's a huge pressure to do it that way, because the cross-development model is so relatively painful.</quote>