What keeps me away from actually buying their stuff is the software ecosystem. Linux is great for development work, OK for everything else desktop-ish, but like 100 miles behind Android.
If they started moving into IoT, and had replacements for the whole Google Home/Assistant/Cloud/Keep ecosystem, maybe, but then there's still games, banking apps, NFC payments, and things like that which probably aren't going to work that well.
I hope they succeed, they seem to be the most promising FOSS friendly company out there, but I wonder if they wouldn't be better off focusing on the bottom up before jumping into phones and tablets. Pinecil looks to be the best iron out there.
Or maybe the phones and tablets are exactly what they need to get people excited, I'm sure not a business major!
I'd still expect lots of issues considering Google probably doesn't really want their cloud services used on open devices even if people manage to make it work
I've tried Waydroid on a phone running Ubuntu Touch. Games perform very well and most FOSS apps work great. SafetyNet causes issues for the proprietary apps that require it, but even in its current state, Waydroid already makes the leap to Linux from Android much easier.
What keeps me away from actually buying their stuff is the software ecosystem. Linux is great for development work, OK for everything else desktop-ish, but like 100 miles behind Android.
If they started moving into IoT, and had replacements for the whole Google Home/Assistant/Cloud/Keep ecosystem, maybe, but then there's still games, banking apps, NFC payments, and things like that which probably aren't going to work that well.
I hope they succeed, they seem to be the most promising FOSS friendly company out there, but I wonder if they wouldn't be better off focusing on the bottom up before jumping into phones and tablets. Pinecil looks to be the best iron out there.
Or maybe the phones and tablets are exactly what they need to get people excited, I'm sure not a business major!