> I wish it was feasible to have alternative mobile systems, but it's not really.
I think there is a possible exception here.
I mean, firstly, yes, sadly this is largely true.
I had a Blackberry Passport, a beautiful handset running the QNX-based BB X OS. Over a year of ownership it gradually got less and less useful as app vendors turned off BB X support. No FB IM, no Whatsapp, and I have a phone that won't let me text with 90% of the most-contacted people on my phone.
And in those days (2014-2015) I did much less with my phone than now.
But I also own 2 little-used tablets.
I use tablets for watching films and TV, reading books, occasionally email. I don't do any of the mobile-phone stuff on my tablets, and they do not have SIM cards in them.
I would have as much use for a FOSS-powered tablet as I do for an Android or iOS tablet.
Poor patchy phone support does not cut it, sadly, and that's more than doubly so without apps.
But good support for at least one currently-available cheap Chinese tablet would be of legitimate interest to me.
I think there is a possible exception here.
I mean, firstly, yes, sadly this is largely true.
I had a Blackberry Passport, a beautiful handset running the QNX-based BB X OS. Over a year of ownership it gradually got less and less useful as app vendors turned off BB X support. No FB IM, no Whatsapp, and I have a phone that won't let me text with 90% of the most-contacted people on my phone.
And in those days (2014-2015) I did much less with my phone than now.
But I also own 2 little-used tablets.
I use tablets for watching films and TV, reading books, occasionally email. I don't do any of the mobile-phone stuff on my tablets, and they do not have SIM cards in them.
I would have as much use for a FOSS-powered tablet as I do for an Android or iOS tablet.
Poor patchy phone support does not cut it, sadly, and that's more than doubly so without apps.
But good support for at least one currently-available cheap Chinese tablet would be of legitimate interest to me.