@naizena This topic is more of a discussion than a question, so it doesn't need to be marked solved imho.

@arubislander Thanks for the advice, will put into consideration and will dive thru Gitlab to see if this issue was discussed bedore or not.

Any suggestion from my side while exploring the UT will be notified for sure.

Thanks.

Thank you @libremax 🙂

@Mario-CH One of the things we are looking at is a clearer distinction in promo material of what refers to their OS which is what the privacy quote is all about and how we want UT to be described to avoid creating a false impression of UT.
Not so much with those familier with UT but those who might want to give it a try for the first time or in the future buy a UT pre installed model. We don't want to create any false impression of UT and UBports.

@Keneda It's a longish story but basically no.

Greetings, @Salah, and welcome to the UBports community! 👍🏻

@arubislander For me it's the same authentication failure like @danfro The GUI which comes up in your example isn't there for me. You have to enter the password in the same terminal-window where you have entered the command. (Vollaphone, UT 20.04 devel)

Hi @jojumaxx

As far as I know, it is easier and faster to create a port for Ubuntu Touch on an Android than it is on the PinePhones.
You seem to think that the time from contributors can be managed like in a company ; that is simply not true.

When a porter has a desire for Ubuntu Touch on a device they own, they invest their time doing so and share it with the larger community.
And that's probably not time they would have invested in Pine64's devices or another Ubuntu Touch related project.

A major chunk of development time is actually spent on keeping up with Ubuntu LTS.
A effect is the Qt version supported and it lead to the fact that our browser is out of date.
If we had the manpower a better strategy would be to keep up with Ubuntu Stable and update every 6 months, but that is out of reach at the moment.

To answer your question we are not running after Android and there are few ports to newer devices.
The exceptions I have in mind are Fairphone5 and Volla better we are partnering with them.
We partnered with Pine64 but it was very difficult to improve with the drivers provided if I understood it correctly.

I for sure would love to have an open hardware phone well supported by Ubuntu Touch.
But it has some challenges that we could not address without compromising the OS so focus shifted.

Now if you can motivate enough skilled developers to improve the Pine devices situation that would be great and welcome by many I'm sure.
What Oren is doing with the PinePhones is remarkable, you're absolutely right.
And I'm sure he appreciates the gratitude love and if you can donate it's always appreciated...

Update:
I removed the proof of concept web app from the OpenStore, because I have no time right now to regularly restart the server or to fix the stability problems. It would also not make much sense to improve something, that will not be used.

It is all available under GNU GPL3 at: https://gitlab.com/AdamSchrey/open-store-payment-poc
So if anyone wants to revisit the idea, he/she can do so.
I am also happy to answer any questions about it.

Thank you all for the feedback👍

Thank you!