Will Linux on phones become as easy as PC?

[KC9UDX]

Well I hate to say it but, hopefully not.  I hope to not see ARM devices get as generic as Wintel boxes.

Why not?  It seems to me that would make ARM easier to support as well as increasing accessibility.  Are there drawbacks I’m not thinking of?

Yeah, I would think more generic would be better with wider and easier support and maybe cheaper parts?

Maybe.  I was just discussing this with someone earlier: how we've lived through so many different stages of what is considered acceptable hardware that all PC's being PC's must have.  Cheaper possibly.  Better?  No, because the better parts are always the ones ahead of standardisation.  There are so many times in Wintel history that a good path was rejected for the cheaper "more standard" one.