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Am I the only one who thinks this project will never succeed? I mean, don't get me wrong I want it to succeed, but in this ecosystem of apps/capitalism, and Apple/Google duopoly, I see no chance of an open project like this going mainstream, and the intersection between the tech enthusiasts (as I really don't think this project is aimed at the non tech-savvy) and who actually would want to replace their phone with this isn't enough (HN community isn't a good KPI for this, obviously. We need to check out the general audience) to support the costs.

I'd like to be proven wrong though.




Well, I've read it, but didn't even convince me a bit. All the reasons that they claim for succeeding against Android and iOS are very, very niche corner cases where 99.9% of users don't care about.




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