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Because they don't work as phones, at least not for practical use
No one has cracked it yet, some projects seem to be getting close, but the radio in a phone is a very complicated and poorly documented black box
Every review I've seen of them is really bad. Basic things like simply placing or receiving a call do not work properly.
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I'm still fucking pissed that MS stopped Windows Phone development. My Lumia 950XL was the height of my smartphone experience. Live tiles, so, like, I could just look at my home screen and see how my accounts were doing (yeah, I used to have savings and investments and such) alongside weather and ... a Jedi needs not these things.
But when you get laid off three times in a year, the calculus changes. "Sorry you're fucked, but we don't care" -- IRS
I wanted to try GrapheneOS on an old Pixel, but when I pulled it out of the box, the power button was gone. And you can't really fake it with a ballpoint pen.
Android is Linux based and arguably the most popular mobile OS.
Urgh... Come on.... -.-'
“Why aren’t Linux based mobile OSes more popular if we ignore the fact that the most popular mobile OS by far is Linux based”.
Gee, I wonder why.
Come on, you're being disingenuous. You know exactly what this person was talking about. You're acting in the exact same way that people are acting when they unironically post the whole "Actually, what you're referring to as Linux is actually GNU + Linux" or whatever. Come ooon...
What is the difference between Android and any of the other Linux based mobile OSes?
The massively different userlands, mutable root partition by default, root by default, etc.
They are completely different operating systems that just so happen to use the same kernel.
The massively different userlands, mutable root partition by default, root by default, etc.
And there’s your answer: that’s shit no one cares about other than a few super nerds on Lemmy.
People care about having an OS not controlled by Big Tech. You might not, but you don't have to be a dick about it to people who do.
People care about having an OS not controlled by Big Tech.
Sure. Ask the average person if they want to give up their Facebook or TikTok apps so they can have a ‘free’ OS. You’re absolutely delusional if you think that any significant number of consumers will choose that.
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