Because people want to use apps, which unfortunately don’t exist on the Linux mobile projects. Banking apps are the biggest issue in fact. Obviously for a lot of other things, anyone can create alternatives.
And the whole issue of not being able to use most modern hardware with mainline Linux kernel because the drivers are closed source binary blobs. You have to use a device-specific kernels.
They’re extremely talented in the security/mobile/os arena, why not contribute to one of the Linux mobile projects and kill two birds?
Because people want to use apps, which unfortunately don’t exist on the Linux mobile projects. Banking apps are the biggest issue in fact. Obviously for a lot of other things, anyone can create alternatives.
And the whole issue of not being able to use most modern hardware with mainline Linux kernel because the drivers are closed source binary blobs. You have to use a device-specific kernels.
Waydroid exists but agreed, shouldn’t be a permanent fix, but it’s a valid step
That solves apps, but partially - I don’t think WayDroid passes Google Play integrity?
Still leaves us the driver issue, for which I blame Qualcomm mostly.