Comment by numpad0

1 year ago

> And all I can find on the camera is "it's 50MP!!! " But how do actual, non-photoshopped pictures look?

It's probably all they know about the camera. Not even Apple make their own cameras. It's always someone else's (customized)product. If they're outsourcing hardware, they might not even know the customer code assigned to the contracted OEM.

> I don't want weird, custom-built stuff that will be forgotten about in 12 months

Then none of hardware and many of software features will work. There are no in-box standard implementations for e.g. phone call in GNU/Linux, so it'll have to be supplied in the form of a custom preconfigured distro with bunch of free preinstalled apps.

The fact that product necessitating free preinstalled apps to function leads to needs to supply OS as flavors of your own weird unsupported distro, like N900-specifix Maemo or Steam Deck OLED-specific SteamOS images.

You aren't going to like being instructed how to install and patch a SIP softphone just to make calls on North American carriers with vague hints for Canadian specifics. It's a phone, it'll be lame if it doesn't make calls out of the box. And there comes the 3 years old $DISTRO-$HWREV-$VERSION.img that instantly shows antenna bars right on the setup screen.

Actually I think it's unfair to call Maemo a weird unsupported thing. It didn't seem that far from bone stock desktop Linux.