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TBH I think having a flutter port for this operating mobile system is probably the most likely way for it to succeed. That way you can do a flutter app and it will work on this too, while still having mainline OS support. Then you would need to fill in some common services like push and such.
The most likely way to succeed would be to jump on the PWA bandwagon, IMO.
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TBH I think having a flutter port for this operating mobile system is probably the most likely way for it to succeed. That way you can do a flutter app and it will work on this too, while still having mainline OS support. Then you would need to fill in some common services like push and such.
Or run an Android or iOS emulator. (Note: like Wine runs Windows software on Linux in a fully legal way).
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Theoretically you can run those apps via anbox. I've tested whatsapp via anbox on my desktop ubuntu install at least, and it works fine. Remains to be seen how well it'll work on this upgraded hardware, and I'm sure they're being conservative because of that.
There's also this somewhat new project called waydroid that runs android applications closer to the metal than an emulator would. https://waydro.id/
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Because your pentium 3 GUI linux had a GUI designed around pentium 3 era hardware. All the linux phone GUIs seem to be designed around the latest in special GUI effects and animations and transparency. For some reason all the people who know how to design UIs for linux are incapable of understanding hardware requirements.
Check out sxmo.org if you're going for a minimalist UI. But the big feature that's missing on these old-style UI's (while it is in, e.g. Phosh) is smooth animations w/ direct 1-to-1 feedback, which is critical for usability w/ modern capacitive touchscreens and quite hard to achieve without GPU acceleration.
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>As a result, I cannot take any risks when purchasing a phone. Or you could make better choices when it comes to how you organise your life so that you do not get in situations where losing your phone completely screws you over. Seriously I don't get why people wilfully get into situations where important things in their life rest on the reliability of their phone. It takes a minimal amount of awareness. And there's…
The problem is what do you do about 2fa which more and more organizations are requiring almost always via sms ? I suppose yubikeys could be part of the solution of getting away from the phone for auth.
I've also not seen a massive push for 2FA which requires a special mobile-only application from organizations. Aside from my bank, where I have the option of a mobile app or a small calculator-looking token (I obviously picked the token), most 2FA I see is basic TOTP (which you can back up and treat as you like) or some third party solution which provides non-mobile options (and half the time someone has reverse engineered the software and there's an open source solution or it's actually just generic TOTP which you can run anywhere).
My work relies on a VPN connection and the the token is generated in a special mobile app, they have given me a smarphone for this purpose. I was informed by coworkers that if you reset the token and re-generate the key you can load the key into a slightly modified version of any TOTP program which uses a slightly different interval and it would work. But at the end of the day if my job requires this token and they give me a phone for it and that's the only source of the token and the phone breaks, I'm not going to really fret about it. It's not my problem to solve, all I have to do is contact my employer and get them to sort out getting me a new phone and getting me back up and running. Keeping this backed up is not my responsibility.