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Re:XCancel also down, at least for time being by bionade24 on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:34AM (#49446203)
With every year passed the bar for a successful Linux phone got higher. Potential users expect more & more apps for internet-related services to run while the companies tear down their APIs making more 3rd-party apps impossible.

Facebook Messenger didn't have an XMPP API because Zuck was a nice guy back then.

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Re:XCancel also down, at least for time being by zer0zzz on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:15AM (#49461046)
What exactly is a Linux phone and how does that actually change anything?
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Re:XCancel also down, at least for time being by bionade24 on Friday September 04, 2026 @10:08AM (#49564884)
A phone with a freedesktop.org/XDG, FHS-compliant userland whose software is fully hackable if the user of the device wants to.
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