Third mobile OS is hard because people lack ideas. Reality is, if you have some clear vision for an OS that's different to Android you can just take Android an

Third mobile OS is hard because people lack ideas. Reality is, if you have some clear vision for an OS that's different to Android you can just take Android and fork it until it meets your vision. Toss out what gets in your way, keep the stuff that you don't disagree on. There's no need to build an entire new OS from scratch. You can deviate as far as you like that way. People don't do this and Android forks are all pretty similar because, ultimately, these platforms are pretty good and Google/Apple don't miss many tricks. That's why this /e/ OS is trying to differentiate on vague promises like privacy or being European. They don't have any deep ideas for ways to make the end user's life better. Not a criticism of them, by the way. I don't know what I'd change if I was given a big pile of money and told to make a new OS, fork of Android or not. But that's the point. Not many people do.