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Really wish we had a third viable option from a company who wasn’t evil. Year of the Linux phone anyone? 😇
It is almost impossible to penetrate the smartphone market at the moment, as both iOS and Android have the robust app ecosystem and polished OS experience and this is an extremely high bar to cross.
Just see what happened with Windows mobile or even Nokia, and mind you that was years ago. Now it should be even harder. I presume there is still a market for niche products based on Linux for example but nothing really competitive on the global scale.
Developing for iOS and Android is expensive and painful. Adding a third ecosystem to that would be more expensive and more painful.
We could probably come up with something Android adjacent that was able to run APKs. Hell I guess Amazon kind of tried that already.
Nobody wants to reinvent the wheel for free.
It's already there. Jolla's SailfishOS can run Android apps using their AlienDalvik compatibility layer. PostmarketOS can also run Android apps using Waydroid.