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Re:Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Af... by eddythompson80 on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:25PM (#48896702)
> We were so close to having literal plain Linux phones.

IIRC, the dominant position back then was "Android is Linux". Shuttleworth closed his famous #1 bug on Canonical that was their mission in 2013 because now Android/Linux is more popular than Windows and the future is mobile[1]. Also Google still had a lot of good will in the OSS/Linux community back then so most "Mobile Linux" attempts were met with "Just use Android"

[1] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/05/mark-shuttleworth-marks-...

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Re:Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Af... by jauntywundrkind on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:55PM (#48897919)
Android may be a Linux but it (if we are feeling generous) sure as heck is not the user's. It's someone else's Linux that they let us run some non-Linux apps in in extremely tight sandboxes.
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Re:Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Af... by roundabout-host on Friday July 17, 2026 @04:13AM (#48944594)
From the user's perspective, it is not Unix-like, even though it contains Linux. FreeBSD is more similar to GNU/Linux than Android is.
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