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Seems a hard sell to go subscription on such a niche platform. I wish anyone luck that could challenge the Apple/Android duopoly though.
I haven't looked into it. But I suspect that if Linux phones can get Kotlin to run natively, we'll start seeing some of the apps from F-Droid ported over and that will be the turning point.
Kotlin isn't the problem, missing the various Android API's is.
But a Linux distro can go like for like, like what Google did with Java right? So people wouldn't have to recreate apps, just tweak them
It's still a lot of work, for what value compared to an OS based on AOSP?
I feel like, if AOSP was going to be adopted by the Linux community, it would've happened already.
I'm not sure what "the Linux community" really means but I would bet that pure open source Android based on AOSP are more popular than the non-Android Linux mobile OS combined.
Think PinePhone and Librem Phone,