I wonder: will Android or iOS ever become a viable alternative to Linux phones?
Apple started quick and announced the iPhone just a few months after a GNU/Linux smartphone. Google took a bit longer with Android - but now they both had nearly 20 years, and yet they're still nowhere close to being able to replace GNU/Linux phones. Will they ever up their game and finally create a device worth switching to? I have my doubts, but we’ll see.
I tried - I had carried an Android device as my secondary phone for some 2-3 years in the past, and I have had an iPhone sitting in my drawer for years, and I can see that they’re just not up to the task. Simple things remain utterly confusing or even impossible to achieve with these devices, and they seem unable to provide even the basic feeling of control that you would expect over a device you’re supposed to own. Maybe their third decade of existence will bring the much needed improvement!
In case you couldn't tell I wrote it to be tongue-in-cheek, however, looking back at it it's actually surprisingly accurate! I've been used to daily driving GNU/Linux phones for half my life and I've never really seen Android/iOS as a viable alternative. Sure, some things they do better, but they're not the ones I really care about. My short time when I carried an Android device around because N900 was getting too old to handle the Web well was quite frustrating; I was glad it ended soon enough!