It would end up getting ignored or quickly devolve into the same shit as the others. 😞
Fuck, if Microsoft couldn’t do it, then there’s not much hope for anyone else.
Comment on Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I really wish another viable mobile OS would come out. I don’t want android and apple iOS is wearing thin on me.
DannyMac@lemmy.world 6 months ago
grimacefry@aussie.zone 6 months ago
There was so much competition in the early days of smartphones, its sad we ended up, the whole of humanity with two choices. Meego a collab between Intel and Nokia was really unique and a good model for social media and communications. Windows Phone was good purely to have another major competitor, but the interface was way ahead of Android and iOS for providing a better mobile experience.
RIM Blackberry, Nokia, Palm, all had a red hot go. Amazon tried recently and failed, they look like they’ll give it another shot with their new OS.
Yeah its just sad
modifier@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I miss WebOS as a mobile OS and I can’t bear to see what LG has done do it.
Chobbes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Wait… was this ever good? I hate it so much on my TV.
modifier@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I found it to be a very elegant OS, paired with a very elegant form factor in the Palm Pre. This was over 10 years ago, before Android had cemented its place, but WebOS was a bit ahead of its time, or at least out of sync with the time it was introduced. But it was a slick, intuitive OS that influenced the UX we take for granted today. I believe it was the first to have card-based task management. That satisfying “flick” to close an app was first seen on the Palm Pre.
inverted_deflector@startrek.website 6 months ago
If the palm pre had better build quality and wasnt tied down to sprint in the US I sometimes wonder how things would have played out. It was a better OS than android(especially since it was competing with the g1).
atocci@kbin.social 6 months ago
Why not Android?
baked_tea@lemmy.world 6 months ago
degoogling intensofies
MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Graphene OS might interest you.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’m not going to criticize the project, because it’s good. But, to me, using anything that gives Google an edge in controlling the direction of technology is bad. So, no Chromium products and no Android.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
If you do that too much you’ll go blind.
tiny_electron@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Try Murena on fairphone!
atocci@kbin.social 6 months ago
Murena uses /e/OS, which is still Android though.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It’s less about the hardware and more about the software. I would love to use a fairphone
Fog0555@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Have you tried Ubuntu Touch?
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Perhaps next year will be the year of the Linux Phone. Alas, the same problems that plague the Linux desktop plug the phone. Lack of software.
It’s also very difficult to move out of the Apple ecosystem once everything just works the way you think it should. 
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m quite interested in developments on the way to avoid that would allow the use of Android apps on a Linux phone.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Now that’s an interesting concept.
jacktherippah@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Linux desktop is far more mature and there isn’t even a year for the Linux desktop yet. Linux mobile will probably never take off within our lifetime lmao.
spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Agreed. I don’t have a home computer. All of my online experience is done through my iPhone. I can’t be messing around with phones I constantly need to tweak or troubleshoot. I’ve done it to myself, but I’m okay with where I’m at rn.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh yes please stick with Apple. I don’t think I have ever heard of a better use case scenario.
retrieval4558@mander.xyz 6 months ago
I tried it on a spare old phone and found it pretty unusable tbh. Very limited application choices and I hated the UI / app management work flow.
Also I hated that by default the terminal (and superuser privileges) are VERY locked down.
It’s possible I just didn’t know what I was doing tho ¯_(ツ)_/¯
atmur@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, I’ve put Ubuntu Touch on a Pixel 3a and had a pretty similar experience unfortunately. I see potential, but it’s just not usable yet (for me at least).
Fog0555@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Dang, I haven’t ever tried it. I was hoping for more configurability.