Comment by nekusar

I'm honestly surprised this didn't happen sooner. Apple's been a "lavish jail cell" since its inception, and the control definitely makes them the big bucks. ChromeOS was a jail cell from its inception too. You could do some dev stuff to enable user control, but it disabled other things. https://rainestorme.github.io/guide/ is a guide to jailbreak it. It shouldnt need jailbroken, ever. Should be yours from the moment you paid money for it and bought it.

Google/Alphabet's been slowly tightening all sorts of things. Of course "security" is the term bandied around. Of course, I'd say "security" is overloaded - is it security for the user, or security for google AGAINST the user? I think it's the second.

And we also have no valid 3rd party phone platform. In reality, there was Windows Phone, but that was even worse locked down.

There's a few Linux phone projects. Pinephone is an embarrassment and an abject failure. I think the UbuntuPhone is dead as well.

Once they do this, it'll probably be a while before a proper Linux phone hits the market.