It allows me to run any linux desktop program, which includes programs that can be run with wine, anbox or even a virtual machine. If it's fast enough i wouldn't need a PC at all.
So I would say that is the long term goal: convergence. Linux has a major advantage over other operating systems in this regard.
wine alone wouldn't allow you to run x86 apps
Re:Do you really want Linux phones
by heavyset_go on Thursday March 25, 2021 @03:53PM
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There's definitely a way to use Wine along with binfmt_misc to run x86 apps on ARM or other architectures.
edit: Hangover lets you run x86 programs via Wine on ARM platforms: https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover
I suppose you would have to use qemu userspace emulation at least.
Most of those need apps re-signed all the time and can't do push notifications.
iSH almost looks usable and then you try compiling something or cloning a git repo and your iphone will get hotter than a pinephone watching youtube (and whatever you do can be fairly precisely measured in ~15 minute increments because it takes ages.)
...back when I felt the need to jailbreak at least - now with altstore, ios improvements, or my own dev-ish - I am good.