"Taking a lot of time" is not synonymous with "taking forever".

By the way he phrased his comment, even I could tell this was a project with personal, non-commercial ends.

On this basis, his product will ultimately be: accomplished, or not accomplished but having enriched himself a ton by mere virtue of the pursuit.

The entire world is not only communicating via Android and iOS. Those are the predominant OSs; however, we've all heard of Linux, haven't we?