> A dozen years later, nobody has done that well.
I'm writing this from Librem 5 phone running PureOS based on Debian. No Android dependencies and possibility of full desktop mode. How is this not a success?
> A dozen years later, nobody has done that well.
I'm writing this from Librem 5 phone running PureOS based on Debian. No Android dependencies and possibility of full desktop mode. How is this not a success?
You and several thousand other people see it that way, meanwhile the billions of other computer users out here don’t.
Popularity =/= quality.
That being said, obviously the Librem phone is missing functionality.
Most computer users are goo goo ga ga level users. Most people in the US use iMessage, for example.
It's not the best messenger, not even close. It's not the most ubiquitous either - doesn't even break top 5 globally. Doesn't have the most features. Not the fastest. Not the most secure. Not the easiest to use.
They just use it because it's already installed and right there. That is how deep their understanding and comprehension can go.
There are a lot of people who are not "goo goo ga ga" level users and really need a device.
I've switched to UMPCs because the constant lies and intentional breakage from smartphone vendors drove me up the wall.
glad to see I'm not the only one, if you don't mind me asking, what OS did you settle on? I'm using mint w/ auto-cpufreq on a donki nanote next right now but it's not perfect.
I use Artix on everything these days. It used to Alpine (and before that I was just making my own distros because I didn't like the decisions eg Debian was making.)
thanks! wasn't even on my radar. mind if I ask the device?
For Operating Systems and Ecosystems, Popularity == Quality. The more popular a software is, the more edge cases it encounters and solves issues. More people will write software, plugins, tools for it.
Are you saying that Windows is the most high-quality operating system in the world? This is not even funny. Did you hear about the concepts of walled garden and network effect?
You picked the exact worst example to illustrate your point. People do not pick their messaging service, it is driven by adoption of everybody else.
That's why you're downvoted.
Right, but as ive stated: thats popularity, not quality. There's a difference. Picking something for popularity is perfectly valid.
Do they have a choice? I mean, an actual one that doesn't take significant technical ability.
Those billions need to accept the facts. They're not getting a Windows phone again, and Apple won't likely cannibalize Mac demand with the iPhone.
If they want to have their cake and eat it too, they can either run Linux in an Android container, or Android in a Linux container.
People don't want to quickly turn their phone into a desktop, they want to quickly turn their phone into a laptop. Apple's laptops are over 75% of its sales. And if you have the screen and keyboard of a laptop, why not put a CPU, battery et al. in there?
I think you are missing the point. People don't want to turn anything into anything. They want a minimal number of devices covering all their needs.
then I guess we'll have to wait for companies like huawei with their mate xt, or more likely given friendshoring, the samsung trifold to give people phones that turn into tablets and have a companion keyboard for them to feel this is enough of a threat to address