Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️Mar 25

I wonder if @postmarketOS could pull off something like what [I WRONGLY THOUGHT] @GrapheneOS is doing, where they get a phone maker to sell just one model of phone who's hardware is verified to work well with the operating system preinstalled.

This way, they have a single reference platform to target and some support for getting hardware working, even if only in the form of documentation. They also get some funding from purchases.

I mean, it's probably a bit "chicken and egg" as hardware makers need to see potential sales and potential sales come from users seeing a daily driveable end unit, but maybe, just maybe, something like this could be the next step after getting a single phone fully working.

#PostmarketOS #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux

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@Blort Yeah, so, this is actually something we're working towards. we recently decided on new requirements for the "main"-category, for devices which we think of as "reference devices" (or basically if someone asks "which device should i buy", we can just point them to that): https://docs.postmarketos.org/pmcr/main/0009-new-main-device-category.html
0009: New main device category - postmarketOS Change Request

Mar 26 at 8:59amWeb