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bionade24 20 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notice...

With every year passed the bar for a successful Linux phone got higher. Potential users expect more & more apps for internet-related services to run while the companies tear down their APIs making more 3rd-party apps impossible.

Facebook Messenger didn't have an XMPP API because Zuck was a nice guy back then.

zer0zzz 20 days ago [–]

What exactly is a Linux phone and how does that actually change anything?

bionade24 11 days ago | [–]

A phone with a freedesktop.org/XDG, FHS-compliant userland whose software is fully hackable if the user of the device wants to.

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