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The time for making a new mobile OS was 10-15 years ago. With established ecosystems, his only option is Android. If you think "but that will fail"... yes it will. He can't successfully launch his own phone. He's just running his mouth.
You dont actually need Android for anything. We could return to 2005, when everybody had "phone-friendly" versions of their web page, instead of bloody apps.
Yup. EM could just make newTwitter work via a mobile web page rather than an app. No need to muck about with an App Store. Every phone has a browser. Or is an app needed to monetize users??
Let's take this idea seriously for a moment. First, it's been done: WebOS. Didn't work. And even WebOS needed a native-API userland for on-device functions like being a phone.

Secondly, web apps are very useful. Google was right to make their productivity software and other apps web-based. But even when you run these apps in Google's own browser, you get UX travesties, like two menu bars. Subjectively, user interaction is never as good as in native apps. This is just the web app version of the "native vs cross-platform" app implementation decision. Being cross platform is useful but never quite as slick.

The reason Finnish government was supporting Jolla OS development was that several prominent anti-communist politicians got Jordan Peterson treatment. Android, gmail and other Google services did not work for days.

This was not published, so that purple-haired Google employees did not get the satisfaction. Jolla OS and VIRVE (government phone system) were seen as secure alternative. But Google somehow managed to ensure that this does not happen again and issue was forgotten.

But Russians just officially adopted Jolla OS as the only one in government phones. There will more adopters in rebellious countries of eastern Europe, I am sure.

Elon Musk could easily join this train. Jolla is open and there are no creepy creeps of Amerikan Westcoast Creepytown telling how to use it.

This tracks Elon's apparent Putinist tendencies, as well as the general affinity of the American right toward authoritarian figures like Orban. Re "Elon Musk could easily join this train." Sure. Do it. As if this trainwreck could get more spectacular.

This "This was not published, so that purple-haired Google employees did not get the satisfaction. Jolla OS and VIRVE (government phone system) were seen as secure alternative. But Google somehow managed to ensure that this does not happen again and issue was forgotten." ...has got to be the most obscure yet entertaining conspiracy theory I have heard.

I know all the failed mobile platforms pretty well. The CIA did not kill any of them.

No, no one wants to return 20 years just like that. You may as well say let's return to stationary rotary phones.

Apps exist so you can have a dedicated, integrated experience. A web page is inherently sandboxes, and the platform itself, as powerful as it has become lately, is still quite limited compared to native. Oh, also your battery life will be s**t.

Most of those apps are just WebViews displaying HTML and running JavaScript.