09-21-2020, 03:21 PM
(09-21-2020, 01:58 PM)wibble Wrote: It's one of those sentences that's very clear if you already know what it means, but can be misinterpreted if you don't, and should probably be made clearer. The hardware works (is operational) for those things, but the software to make it a reliable consumer-ready phone isn't there yet. Some areas are already pretty reliable and easy to use, at least in some distros, while others are barely past proof-of-concept code and need someone with both the interest and the skill to make them easy to use. It's very much the same experience as with the OpenMoko years back, and probably with the Purism hardware now too. The fundamental problem has been that without sufficiently open phone hardware the necessary software and APIs for a linux phone haven't developed, and now we're playing catch up.It's a real miracle with what honeyed words some members here try to whitewash the false description on the sales page of pine64.org.
