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Fingers crossed for a smartphone next. So sick of that force fed walled garden crap from Apple and Google.

Might also help to slow down enshittification by a bit if there was a popular alternative. Maybe something like Waydroid could even ease with transition.

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Damn, a smartphone made by Valve would make me splurge for more than middle-low end, for the respect they give us alone.

It just needs my banking apps, and and I'll be happy to pay for it.

It's actually not that impossible, given how the DRM ecosystem trusts steam I could imagine banking apps doing the same.

Some banks might even be up for putting children's banking apps on the steam deck to start with.

Starting an application ecosystem is not trivial. Banks aren't going to rush to write a new app for an OS with such a small market presence. Banks also like and guide security features they rely on in phone apps.

Yeah it would still be difficult. But I could imagine that if steam offered to give a few million to cover development costs and gave projections of 20k new customers, they might be able to convince one of the not very profitable children's fintech banks to develop for the platform.

SteamPhone sounds…… metal as fuck. I’d buy it for the name alone

Signed in just to upvote this. Amen homie

Given that the frame runs steamOS on ARM hardware, I could see something like a phone in the future.

But also, phones don't seem to be the best hardware to play PC games which is kinda the whole deal.

I maybe would see first a smaller ARM based device (like those retro consoles).

Or.. just a better experience for mobile games, if they have porting tools.

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