Unless a truly functional open source phone arises, my next phone will sport Harmony NextOS. Harmony phones are slowing trickling into my local market, and I expect the trickle to become a flood shortly, moving them into my price range.
I would love to try Harmony OS, unfortunately it is unavalable for me to use. I am looking into how realistic Linage OS is as an alternative or a Linux Phone
Luckily, I live in a country with a government that doesn’t get it knickers in a bind at the mere mention of China. At this point, Harmony is only available on Huawei phones and tablets, which are a bit pricey for me. I’ll have to wait until Redmi, OPPO and VIVO start shipping with it installed.
I keep wondering if China is working on a mobile phone version of openKylinOS. Eventually, it will be on most people’s PCs and laptops there, so also being on mobile seems a natural transition. One can hope. Harmony NextOS works across phones, PC, IoT, and servers, so I’m hoping China does the same thing with Linux.
Oh good please do, you can automate all kinds of things related to running websites, moderation, shared notifications with ntfy, it’s all a lot easier already without stock OS limitations, and Google will make it impossible in 200 days or so.
Personally, with incredible regret, I must recommend the Pixel, as your device being run more like a computer increases the sorrow and paranoia potential of random theft, so having an unlocked bootloader is pretty unacceptable, your phone will be shipped to effective crackers. It is currently the only safe LineageOS option, not just the only GOS one. It’s a shame.
However, for general purposes and to get started or perhaps convert older devices, consult their wiki, it has an extensive catalog of devices that work with it, and you can go find the models after that.
Big revenues for a company that sells things like cars is not out of the ordinary. If your costs are high then revenue is going to be high.
It’s more of a measure of the scale of Huawei, and shows how effective the cooperative model is in the private sector. I’d really love to see China move towards a model where they force all domestic private sector companies to operate as worker owned cooperatives. I suppose, the tricky question there would be how foreign companies fit into that model.
