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Good luck funding the development of a competing mobile OS by FLOSS nerds that can compete with Google's trillion dollar market cap. Even if you could get some
by echelon_musk 1y ago
Good luck funding the development of a competing mobile OS by FLOSS nerds that can compete with Google's trillion dollar market cap.
Even if you could get some traction, you're gonna have a bad time getting banks to support this OS, at which point it will be useless for most users, preventing you from ever becoming profitable.
- cesarb 1y ago> Even if you could get some traction, you're gonna have a bad time getting banks to support this OS This already happened. Banks here in Brazil like to require an invasive piece of software (a browser "plugin", though it installs system services) to access their online banking websites. For a long time, this invasive software was Windows-only, so those of us using Linux had to either beg the banks to enable a flag to bypass that "security software" for our accounts, or do without online banking. The same for the government-developed tax software, which was initially DOS-only and then became Windows-only. But nowadays, there is a Linux variant of that invasive banking "security" software, and that tax software became Java-only (with Windows, Linux, and MacOS installers, plus a generic archive for other operating systems). So things can change.
- mistercheph 1y agoLinux, linux, linux, if you’re blackpilled keep it to yourself, contributes nothing.
- echelon_musk 1y agoLike many others in this thread have already said, Linux is not the solution. You call it blackpilling, I call it facing reality.
- mistercheph 1y agoYour reality is sad, glad I don't live in it!