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Small Phones are Dead and We Killed Them (www.youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 7 months ago (19 children)

As a small phone lover, here's the thing: we don't consume as many phones or as many services as (general) big phone people.

It's not only about the size of the community. It's that our phones are tools generally at our service and not the reverse.

Hopefully Linux phones are not so far away from usable in the next couple years.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Hopefully Linux phones are not so far away from usable in the next couple years.

I said the same thing in like 2013. :(

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (5 children)

It seemed more likely back then than it does today. Ubuntu and Firefox were both developing mobile OSes around that time.

What's the closest thing to a viable option nowadays?

[–] emilStigsson 4 points 7 months ago

It is indeed quite dire. My hope lies in that the recent attempts have been more upstream first oriented where lots of distros run on phones. They do not work well yet but that approach might just get us there eventually.

Another thing that gives me hope is that phones do not change much any more. Much easier to catch up to a stagnated market.

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