> Before that you say “we need apps”, that’s the heart of your comment.
Apps are major reason for using my phone. I don't really phone or text people I use whatsapp, telegram, etc for messaging, Twitter and Reddit for content and a browser for the rest. Then there are covid apps, health tracking apps, etc.
> It can be successfully argued that we don’t need more of what we already have (aka closed walled, ad ridden, privacy off by default - solutions)
Try getting traction when everyone compares you to those things and those things are what people want.
> We (as in developers) should start believing in these projects and adopt them. Blender for a long time couldn’t match the big boys of 3D creation. Right now it’s really gaining traction. I see a couple of factors for its succes:
The issue I see here is that the it supports multiple operating systems and each operating system is a small team. Everyone believes in their version of the operating system.
That kind of defeats the purpose of the whole thing. If you want android you can just buy an android phone.
Fingers crossed that the coming pine phone 2.0 or 3.0 sails through on enhanced/xtended funding.
Before that you say “we need apps”, that’s the heart of your comment.
It can be successfully argued that we don’t need more of what we already have (aka closed walled, ad ridden, privacy off by default - solutions)
We (as in developers) should start believing in these projects and adopt them. Blender for a long time couldn’t match the big boys of 3D creation. Right now it’s really gaining traction. I see a couple of factors for its succes:
- a well managed project with a equally good vision that adapted to changes and demands. - a crowd that believed it could be great - a funding path to attract devs and hire them for a wanted feature - a different way of looking at these projects instead of “we don’t have x from this ecosystem” , how can we as devs be the forerunners in creating something that supersedes it.