Imagine all of this talent going to work for grapheneOS and/or hardware company willing to make a phone with grapheneOS as its OS.

[mutilationwave@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Where's the fucking back button? When I rarely use my wife's phone I'm like how can you deal with this?

[orange@communick.news]

Overlap with desktop Linux means support for that is support for these mobile Linux distros, and desktop Linux gets support from a range of people and companies, not just Google.

[ultimate@lemm.ee]

Imagine using Ubuntu Touch with Waydroid for Android Compatibility. Would be sick.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

I just looked and that seems surprisingly usable. I might just pick one up and mess with it.

[aliteralcabbage@feddit.uk]

And why does where you swipe down on the notification bar change what's shown?!

[jj4211@lemmy.world]

The apps may have been a bit anemic, but it was early enough that all the app stores were not great. They were certainly hurt by their initial "JavaScript only" stance.

Really painful was that they had exclusivity with Sprint of all carriers. That was a really limiting decision.

I think ultimately the singularly fatal issue was the HP debacle. The initial circumstances of the acquisition might not have been ok for the platform. Thanks to some leaked material HP under Hurd actually seemed to have some vision for reinvigorating their consumer brand including an emphasis on former products. But Hurd was ousted and that whole initiative was canned and the new leadership killed the product line that they had just bought. Which was the most baffling call, they didn't make room for some other smartphone or tablet platform, they just shrugged and killed off a product that was their only shot at relevance for a clearly exploding new consumer market.

[pineapplelover@lemm.ee]

Yeah but AOSP practically does most of the heavy work for graphene.

[freebooter69@lemmy.ca]

It works actually. I use this option daily.

[ultimate@lemm.ee]

Whoa that's cool!

What device are you on?

[freebooter69@lemmy.ca]

Pixel 3a xl with unlocked bootloader.

[ultimate@lemm.ee]

Oh nice that it's still holding up. May I ask if that's your primary daily driver?