I don't understand what's taking so long in getting these devices ready for the masses. android is largely open source so a lot of the work done on android can be reused for a mobile compatible linux kernel no doubt, supporting the hardware shouldn't be very hard almost regardless of what they choose for said hardware.
Is it just a matter of streamlining the UI and such? What exactly is the roadblock that's keeping linux phones off the market? From the outside glancing in it looks like a linux phone should be easy to make, why has it proven to be just the opposite? I have little doubt that if a linux phone that could rival flagship phones in things such as camera and display quality and performance was released, it'd really just take off, I mean there's a lot to like about a linux phone (such as having basically a full fledged mobile PC in your pocket where if you have a keyboard and mouse you can do virtually anything you could on a PC within the limits of the hardware capabilities; something android and ios go out of their way to avoid providing users with, you can't really say your phone is yours to do with as you please when the os on it does everything in it's power to keep you locked in it's little jail cell, and even rooting it doesn't really solve particularly much of that.)
This is a highly viable product if it gets to market, like insanely viable, it has the potential to overtake iOS and Android phones if it's done right.
So what's keeping the linux phones? What's really keeping them?
Is it just a matter of streamlining the UI and such? What exactly is the roadblock that's keeping linux phones off the market? From the outside glancing in it looks like a linux phone should be easy to make, why has it proven to be just the opposite? I have little doubt that if a linux phone that could rival flagship phones in things such as camera and display quality and performance was released, it'd really just take off, I mean there's a lot to like about a linux phone (such as having basically a full fledged mobile PC in your pocket where if you have a keyboard and mouse you can do virtually anything you could on a PC within the limits of the hardware capabilities; something android and ios go out of their way to avoid providing users with, you can't really say your phone is yours to do with as you please when the os on it does everything in it's power to keep you locked in it's little jail cell, and even rooting it doesn't really solve particularly much of that.)
This is a highly viable product if it gets to market, like insanely viable, it has the potential to overtake iOS and Android phones if it's done right.
So what's keeping the linux phones? What's really keeping them?
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