> You cannot use existing desktop apps on mobile without remaking their UI and refactoring them.
Supposedly the GNOME platform that Librem has chosen makes this much easier.
> There will be no games, no popular messenger apps, no bank apps, no apps to play music, no manga selling apps, no photo editing apps, no apps to buy clothes or order a taxi.
That sounds rather like how life already is for Android users who only get stuff through F-Droid. I don’t have games on my Android phone, I told my bank I don’t want their app and I use their other 2FA solution instead. I don’t read manga, so obviously I have no manga-related apps. When it comes to online shopping, I do all that through the browser – honestly, I have never even thought about installing a retailer’s own app.
When it comes to “popular messenger apps”, again, the sort of people who would be interested in Librem’s phone are probably the sort of people who are presently using Telegram or Signal on their Android phones. There are already Desktop Linux versions of those apps, and while the UI may be an issue, it is not hard to believe that usable ports will appear for Librem.
As for “apps to play music”, back on my old Nokia N900 I was very satisfied with using MPD to play music, which could be readily installed on Librem’s phone without even having to port it. I also know that whipping up a new MPD client for whatever UI is not that much work at all, definitely not “millions of man hours”.
Supposedly the GNOME platform that Librem has chosen makes this much easier.
> There will be no games, no popular messenger apps, no bank apps, no apps to play music, no manga selling apps, no photo editing apps, no apps to buy clothes or order a taxi.
That sounds rather like how life already is for Android users who only get stuff through F-Droid. I don’t have games on my Android phone, I told my bank I don’t want their app and I use their other 2FA solution instead. I don’t read manga, so obviously I have no manga-related apps. When it comes to online shopping, I do all that through the browser – honestly, I have never even thought about installing a retailer’s own app.
When it comes to “popular messenger apps”, again, the sort of people who would be interested in Librem’s phone are probably the sort of people who are presently using Telegram or Signal on their Android phones. There are already Desktop Linux versions of those apps, and while the UI may be an issue, it is not hard to believe that usable ports will appear for Librem.
As for “apps to play music”, back on my old Nokia N900 I was very satisfied with using MPD to play music, which could be readily installed on Librem’s phone without even having to port it. I also know that whipping up a new MPD client for whatever UI is not that much work at all, definitely not “millions of man hours”.