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Free Software Foundation announces a Librephone initiative to develop a fully free and open source smartphone (liliputing.com)
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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yep, there are also development tools missing (at least at the level Android and iOS have them) and the motivation for developers to support yet another platform with no users (at least initially). A good example is Microsoft which thrown awful lot of money and resources at Windows Phone only to give up eventually. OTOH it'd be interesting if i.e. EU decided to support a new phone/OS, that'd certainly help with those delicate apps at least.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    A good example is Microsoft which [threw an] awful lot of money and resources at Windows Phone only to give up eventually.

    I just want to point out that they started or bought themselves into a Windows phone idea no less than three times before giving up, ruining Nokia in the process.

    Oh. And some of the Nokia handsets were gorgeous.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    They trick is to do what MS did in the early years, provide an API layer for compatibility.

    No reason they couldn't throw on an Android API layer specifically for targeting things like banking apps, etc,(maybe not games).

    Phones have significant power these days.

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