Apple and Google will gladly erase the works of developers to chase profits.
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I think that right now the best option is probably sailfish. Although I haven't tried it in years, I have just been following the topic since then. PostmarketOS is cool but I haven't tried it, would like to. UB ports is probably also worth looking into. Hardware is going to matter, these projects typically target a few devices.
The developers could target more devices if people actually donate enough to the projects since they could buy more phones to code and test for. As there’s a lot of reversing engineering being done on modems.
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