alt Hacker NewsHe’s saying the examples given were so generic that every OS that cares about battery life and security would just be Android. Battery life optimizations and sandboxing don’t make Android inevitable or the only option.
WebOS was a 3rd option until HP sold it off. Microsoft also had a go at it. They were both very different than Android, but would have those features (if not then, they’d have them by now if the projects were still going).
Well then he is missing my point. Which may mean I was unclear, or course.
My point was that "Linux on Mobile" seems to be mentioned a lot when talking about an alternative to evil BigTech. The thing is, if you want to fork something and make it a modern mobile OS, you may as well just fork Android and go from there. Because Android is open source and already has billions of apps.
Microsoft didn't make an open source system, I think? I had never heard of WebOS, so I'd be open to it, but the fact is that the "Linux on Mobile" crowd is more into Alpine or Debian running on a mobile. Which is far from a modern mobile OS.
I totally respect the Linux on Mobile projects, they do a lot of cool stuff. But I don't see that being a serious alternative to modern mobile OSes anytime soon.