Despite the market domination of Apple's iOS
Since when?
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The register is out of the UK and the bulk of their readership is in the US, in both places apple has above 50% market share.
Thx. I didn't knew it was that bad
I mean, do we have viable alternative? Like every popular brand is from similar tech megacorps.
Android is open source
Partially. From what I've read most of current android is proprietary, and the the open source part is behind by a lot. Usual evil Google way.
Look for grapheneos
Im very interested in an officially supported linux phone, however the fitmware seems not to be upstream(yet?). I hope it will be upstreamed, or else were back to square one with linux mobile hardware support if they stop working on it!
They will upstream stuff, but sadly they are not going to mainline.
According to the Librem people: this is Android kernel (& other low level stuff) with Debian userspace, not a true Debian phone. https://social.librem.one/@dos/112686932765355105
At least it might actually get delivered, unlike the librem 5.... /s (but not really)
It’s already delivered - a Mastodon user got one.
But getting an OEM to make a phone under your brand is easy. The real question is how long will they keep the software maintained?
These people seem like passionate Linux enthusiasts, so one can hope.
Is it better than PinePhone?
I don't think so