> Yeah but that kind of defeats the purpose of having a phone, doesn't it? :)
No, I would say it opens up infinite possibilities for useful customizations. Even if you aren't a programmer, someone likely writes a relevant script for your use case.
I mean if you have to transfer files from your computer or connect a keyboard just to do something on the phone. That's really inconvenient, I've tried to use my Pinephone that way and it's unpleasant.
The other platforms have figured this out, where the "someone likely writes a relevant script for your use case" becomes "someone likely writes a relevant app for your use case" and you just go to the app store and download it. No need to mess with scripts or plug in a keyboard, and you still get to have plenty of customization. I believe flatpak has started to add categories for mobile apps so that is bringing us closer to where things need to be.
I've seen some neat code editors on iOS/Android that do some fun things like:
- Have a special keyboard that contains only symbols for the target language
- Handles all editing at the AST level so you can't make typos
- Make heavy use of completions everywhere possible
There seems to be no reason we can't also have that here.