alt Hacker News> The timing is also suspicious, shortly after publication of this report: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/smartphone-ma... which forecasts declining smartphone sales meaning less devices for this OS to run on.
Why would declining sales of new smartphones have anything to do with PostMarketOS, which only supports phones more than half a decade old?
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zozbot234 • today at 3:58 PM
pmOS does support recent phones, provided that they can be bootloader-unlocked - and that's only a few brands these days.
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PostmarketOS doesn't exist in a vacuum. It’s the final stage of a device's life cycle. If the initial sales of new devices decline, the pool of available hardware for enthusiasts to tinker with in five years will be significantly smaller.