Isn't the point that we wouldn't need app vendors to present these things, if the OS were a little more intelligently exposed to the user, who is expected to own it and not just use it?
I think there is something about a "Linux phone" which makes apps like WhatsApp, and so on .. quite obsolete. These apps fix holes in iOS/Android - they extend the features of what should be, operating system functions.
I find it repugnant that I have, for example, ~15 apps that basically do the same thing, organized in a folder, and which I maintain as a common suite of messaging inboxes.
This, to me, indicates that the OS is not doing something it should be doing, intrinsically. Yes, it means eventually deleting all those competing protocols - and independently weak sources of dataleak - and putting it all back under the users control.
With a Linux-based phone/communications device, isn't it going to be the case that the open nature of Linux ecosystems is going to have that sort of effect? i.e. - the user really is in control of their machine, and thus their own personal data.
I predict that there will be an IPFS'ish revolution on Libre, when it gets out there, which will mean that the one place vendors should set up shop, is the ol' SMS gateway.
'ipfs pubsub sub fridaynightcrew && ipfs pubsub pub fridaynightcrew "wheres the party?"' is but a gateway from being accessible by existing users, of the aforementioned ~15 messaging apps ..
