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Questions for linux phone enthusiasts:
1. What's to stop Instagram etc creating apps for mobile linux? (In principle I mean, obviously there's no market yet)
2. Is it possible to set up phones with users, so (in principle) you could have a child as a user who can't install anything without the root password?
Thanks ahead of time (this is for my forthcoming blog post on the benefits of linux mobile for young people)
@davidoclubb Havent read the other comments yet. Android is F/OSS
and is essentially already Linux but with major tweaks made to help them run on different hardware. Whats not F/OSS is the Play store and the apps in it.
1) Nothing. They could hire linux devs but dont b/c Linux isnt condusive to capturing user data and thats what they want. Device, location, other user data they want it and Linux isnt friendly to those principles.
2) Yes. This is possible in Android but takes work.
@olenglishD Thanks, my feeling is that data capture would be tricky but I'm not a developer so I wanted to canvass opinion!