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Everyone keeps talking about "building a basic purpose-built UI" for many many years now, but that's pretty much a weekend project that could be easily built on

Everyone keeps talking about "building a basic purpose-built UI" for many many years now, but that's pretty much a weekend project that could be easily built on top of already existing abstractions that somehow doesn't seem to gain dev traction. Zhone and Paroli already existed in the past, but most people gravitated towards more capable options. It's like people actually want their smartphones to be somewhat smart. Or maybe there are as many sets of things considered "basic" as there are people. Pick your explanation.

pjmlp 5y ago
Easy, the Linux phone is going to happen on the same day as the Linux Desktop finally arrives. Instead of collaborating on a single development and consumer experience, each of these efforts go out doing their own thing. Meanwhile companies like Nokia[0] and Google come and assert this is how it is going to be, not happy move on. The large consumer market, and App developers, don't care that many Linux syscalls aren't considered public APIs and communities like Termux refuse to acknowledge that. So every couple of years these attempts keep being rebooted, all the way back to OpenMoko. [0] - We all know why Nokia efforts bombed, and now their brand is also tied to Android phones