iPhones are not "nice stuff"
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Would open-sourced phones be “nice stuff” for you?
There is no such thing as a fully open source phone. Android phones are the lesser evil. No mandatory login to use most features and you can also flash your own open source, pure android ROM, with google fully removed and most proprietary software. The modem radio will awlays have properietary technology for the moment. With iOS almost the whole operating system is closed source properietary spyware platform.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
There were/are attempts like Ubuntu Touch or Plasma Mobile. Still very basic support, but with lots of potential - at least for tech interested people.
The main problem is that most mobile SoCs are locked or don't release OpenSource drivers.
Maybe one day we will have free RISC-V SoCs which attempts to replace ARM.