Hi grenudi,
As a user—and therefore not a programmer—when I read your post and try to understand what you’re aiming to achieve, I’m actually confused.
You write the following at the end:
So: Should You Use Ubuntu Touch?
Yes, if: you enjoy the experience for its own sake, a Volla or Fairphone works for
you, you want to be part of a warm and close-knit community, you enjoy maintaining
interesting software history. You want to run model trains, not build railways.
No, if: you want your contributions to move the needle on Linux mobile broadly, you
want to upstream kernel support for new hardware, improve Wayland for all phone users,
ship apps that work everywhere, or be part of something that compounds at the ecosystem
level.
This gives me the impression that you’ve actually already made up your mind, which is why I have a serious question for you:
Why this post, since, as you yourself write, there are alternative mobile OSes where excellent programmers like yourself can contribute their best.
Actually, you should create such an OS yourself and thereby draw all the people who seem to be on the wrong track here over to it.
Because people like me don’t choose UT as a mobile OS that’s better than Android, iOS, or the other Linux-based OSes you mentioned, but rather as an alternative mobile OS that can make calls, play music, take and store photos, use GPS and other sensors, and browse the internet a bit.
And thus, views the other high-tech stuff as little more than a bonus.
Of course, there are also people who want more, but I can't speak for them.
Greetings
Mario
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