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Not a lot currently, but what’s needed is for the snowball to start rolling. This means the early adopters will have to make the more difficult decision of choosing “lesser” options wrt. comfort and convenience, compatibility, and bang for your buck. All decisions matter, and it will have long-term effects en masse.
If Windows phone didn’t take off, nothing will. It was so far ahead of its time, and a legit alternative, but developers didn’t want to support a new platform and neither did users.
The Windows phone entered the market while the market was stable, and users had little reason to move away from what they were used to and comfortable with. These days users are getting more uncomfortable, hence why Linux is on the rise. Same with the push for more liberal software (FOSS). I believe if a company can do it right, and offer a stable and comfortable alternative, they can manage to be much more successful than the Windows phone was 10 - 15 years ago.
Disclaimer: I haven’t checked the statistics, but I remain optimistic, and continue making choices that align with my principles.
Back to a Java flip phone then. Or just off portable radio based computing as a whole. We don’t need portable telephony, and we certainly don’t need to carry portable supercomputers.
There aren’t really many choices when it comes to mobile OS.
Not a lot currently, but what’s needed is for the snowball to start rolling. This means the early adopters will have to make the more difficult decision of choosing “lesser” options wrt. comfort and convenience, compatibility, and bang for your buck. All decisions matter, and it will have long-term effects en masse.
At this point I’m ready to be an early adopter. I’m so tired that Im willing to do that.
If Windows phone didn’t take off, nothing will. It was so far ahead of its time, and a legit alternative, but developers didn’t want to support a new platform and neither did users.
The Windows phone entered the market while the market was stable, and users had little reason to move away from what they were used to and comfortable with. These days users are getting more uncomfortable, hence why Linux is on the rise. Same with the push for more liberal software (FOSS). I believe if a company can do it right, and offer a stable and comfortable alternative, they can manage to be much more successful than the Windows phone was 10 - 15 years ago.
Disclaimer: I haven’t checked the statistics, but I remain optimistic, and continue making choices that align with my principles.
Back to a Java flip phone then. Or just off portable radio based computing as a whole. We don’t need portable telephony, and we certainly don’t need to carry portable supercomputers.
True.
Linux on Mobile has a poor ecosystem and only works on older phones (older then most Android roms)
Have you see FLX1 phone? Based on Debian.
Just looked it up, ane it seems to be $550 with worse specs than ny current phone I paid $130 for
No