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Re:E Foundation – deGoogled unGoogled smartphone OS and onli... by fsflover on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:18AM (#25255334)
PureOS is trying to use desktop apps instead and fit them to the phone screen ("convergence"). I think it is a viable strategy.
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Re:E Foundation – deGoogled unGoogled smartphone OS and onli... by Wowfunhappy on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:51AM (#25255823)
The thing is, there aren't any desktop apps—much less Linux desktop apps—for the types of things I need to do on my phone. On an Android phone, I can buy train tickets (NJTransit), deposit checks (Chase), and have telemedecine appointments with my doctor (MyChart).

I don't know if all of these would work in e.foundation, but presumably at least some would run.

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Re:E Foundation – deGoogled unGoogled smartphone OS and onli... by zozbot234 on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:40PM (#25257977)
> I don't know if all of these would work in e.foundation, but presumably at least some would run.

Custom AOSP apps can be supported via Anbox on upstream linux.

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Re:E Foundation – deGoogled unGoogled smartphone OS and onli... by fsflover on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:58AM (#25255921)
This may indeed be a problem. Perhaps one can use webapps for some of those use cases.
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Re:E Foundation – deGoogled unGoogled smartphone OS and onli... by Wowfunhappy on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:03PM (#25255991)
Unfortunately, I chose all of those examples explicitly because they can't be done on the web—they can't be done on a desktop device at all! :(

The telemedecine app is a big one I think about. I don't know what I would have done if I hadn't had a modern iOS or Android device when the pandemic hit in March, and my doctor appointments suddenly moved to this remote system.

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