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> just use iPhone, FDroid or a dumb phone, duh

Honestly, we need a optimised non-custom rom alternative to smartphone operating systems, which is not iOS or google/android.

While the custom-rom development has come a long way, it's to fiddly, often lacks long-term support, shortcomings in terms of stability (network/singal disruptions, battery usage, crashes, bricks)and even privacy.

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The 2005's rang, they want their phones back. My Sony Ericsson 500i was my edgy love of my teenage college years. Every provider had their own phone with their own firmware. Android appeared and nearly-all of them got in to bed with Google.

And so here we are, living in a world of a million different sized rectangles; all running Android.

> Honestly, we need a optimised non-custom rom alternative to smartphone operating systems, which is not iOS or google/android.

Symbian was way ahead for its time. But I'm just glad we have some developments such as PinePhone and Librem

Symbian was not it.

Meego was it.

Nokia messed up by not actually sharing it properly like the Android Alliance or whatever it was called did.

Nokia went under and Android is everywhere :-(

I still have a running specimen of N9 in my drawer. They killed own future when they stopped Meego development.

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