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> but Windows, Android, and IOS can be picky and not play well with open source. It scares me off a bit from using it. This is what scares me off from using Wi

• cesarb 6y ago
  For phones, unfortunately there's not much of an option. I went the Maemo route, and then it became a dead end; I went the Openmoko route, and then it became a dead end too; Windows was obviously going to become a dead end (and unsurprisingly it did). There's now Pine64 and Purism, but given how many failed before, I'm not too hopeful they'll last. So the only real options are Android and Apple, and of these Android is the least closed (and also the one which doesn't require buying a whole new laptop, plus a paid registration, just to develop for it).
  • grey_earthling 6y ago
    Pine64 and Purism don't need to last. As long as the phone can run without proprietary software and there are enough geeks to maintain a port, I can probably run Debian on it.