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by eric4smith 1467 days ago
Humans are very adaptable just like animals.

Put us to live with pigs and in less than a week we would be fine.

Give us a PinePhone and we would be ok in a week or two. It would become "the new normal". In the end, you can take photos, run apps, develop shit, make calls, send text messages.

It's just like switching between Android and iPhone and back again. Something that many of us have done at least once.

Am I downplaying the PinePhone? Not at all. I'm just saying that its not a big deal one way or the other. If you used it, I'm sure you would be fine.
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roywashere 1467 days ago
For many people, having to switch from iMessage is keeping them on iOS and would not even consider Android.

Having no WhatsApp, no Spotify, no banking app, no Apple Pay or NFC payments, no Widevine so no Netflix and so on is making using Linux on the phone very difficult for both Android and iOS users unless they REALLY want to

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imiric 1467 days ago
This is a device for early adopters and enthusiasts. That crowd will have a secondary device that does all those things, and use the PinePhone as their main pocket computer.

So until things improve and there are more alternatives to what you mentioned, this won't be a mainstream device. And that's fine. We should celebrate where we are today compared to a few years ago.

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linmob 1466 days ago
True.

Well, mostly: You can use Spotify Premium, thanks to Spot: https://github.com/xou816/spot

(I could go into bridging WhatsApp over Matrix, or using WhatsApp Web, but I realize that that's most likely too painful for most. Also, Waydroid makes lots of things work, but the side-effects on battery life made it seem impractical to me, to be honest.)

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Workaccount2 1467 days ago
I can't tell if this comment is sarcastic or not.
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