I love Open Source but I can't ever see them competing with Apple or Google. Literally billions of devices out in the world tied to services that are critical to everyday live. I think this war is already lost.

Please stop spreading learned helplessness. I see a lot of people don't like both Apple and Google, so GNU/Linux phones will definitely spread significantly.

I'm not spreading anything, if you think a lot of people don't like Apple and Google enough to consider linux phones that are objectively less useful then you live in a tech bubble. The VAST majority of people just want their phone to text, show google maps, browse Facebook, and shop Amazon on the apps they know and are used to. It's unlikely in the Extreme that we will see mass migration to Linux. That's not helplessness, I can and have run linux as my main desktop at various times for the last 20 years. It's simply not as good as the commercial alternatives. It's just reality.

> if you think a lot of people don't like Apple and Google enough to consider linux phones that are objectively less useful

I think that Linux phones are going to be very useful very quickly given huge interest of the community and openness of the platform.