For a brief moment in time, there was an alternative in mobile space having best of the both worlds. Back then Nokia was still a thing, Meego/Maemo OSes on some

For a brief moment in time, there was an alternative in mobile space having best of the both worlds. Back then Nokia was still a thing, Meego/Maemo OSes on some -very few- Nokia devices had apt & rpm. Nokia repository would be there by default, and you could easily go and add any package repository through their UI. Just like good ol' Linux package managers, because it was one. In fact this capability even enabled the community of these OSes to support the platform much longer than Nokia intended to. They made emulators, enabled hidden functionality (like FM Radio), even the bootloader was unlocked so you could go and install Android -but drivers were not open-source- if you wanted. It was liberating. Too bad it got killed prematurely, and from its ashes Windows Phone was born.