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> We've had that on the desktop but NEVER on our phones. Give it some time. We've had to wait decades to see some people starting the transition from closed de
by squarefoot 6y ago
> We've had that on the desktop but NEVER on our phones.
Give it some time. We've had to wait decades to see some people starting the transition from closed desktop systems to open ones, and we aren't nowhere close even to a tenth of the Windows/Mac userbase. Mobile platforms in comparison are newborns, and the industry after learning the PC lesson now is actively fighting against Open Source software and standards by producing software that refuses to run anywhere but their platforms (Whatsapp, banking software, etc) while they spend money to tight close their terminals so they can't be reflashed with Open Source operating systems, a practice that also creates pollution related issues.
Time will tell; we probably need at least 5 more years and a couple killer apps that will make a significant number of users move to an open device such as the PinePhone or the Librem 5, or what device will we have by then, so that those figures can't be ignored anymore.
- xrd 6y agoThis phone and developer experience looks like it is ready now. My point is that we don't have to use a terrible developer experience to work on an open system now and we don't need to have it be a massive economic success either. This is what we've been waiting for and it's ready to hack on.