Comment by palata

> Maybe it's time for a third large phone OS

I don't think that the problem is the OS. The problem is access to the hardware. Hardware manufacturers can decide to prevent you from installing an alternative OS on your hardware.

If the law made it mandatory to allow this, it would be a lot easier to go with alternative OSes like GrapheneOS.

> Huawei has HarmonyOS but it's not open

I was thinking at some point that they would go with AOSP and their own Huawei Services on top. Could have been fun. Also I wonder why they don't just support GrapheneOS as an alternative OS.