the state of linux or any other alt ..in the mobile department ..just isn't ready for primetime to go toe to toe against android and iphone..

In fact ..it may never be ...
It may always be behind the eight ball...
IF linux and alt mobile plays by the rule book and follows behind iphone and android..

The only way they have a chance to succeed and establish themselves ....is to come up with the "next big thing" that everyone cannot do without...
Thus changing the rule book that android and iphone use...

Otherwise...no government...no institution .. is going to throw money at such a project...
(I know jolla is being picked up by Russia...but how far they can run with it?...how much money must be thrown at it?..and how much can be integrated into societal daily life? ...are the big questions...
why compete and try to reinvent the wheel ?...when the alternative infra already exists ready to implement and deploy with apple and android? )

as so many have said already...
the functioning apps that are rapidly being and in deployment in society to do the most innocuous seeming and mundane things ..are in the hands of android and iphone...
in fact..
I think it was Kabouik who just recently mentioned he had no choice but to pay for his parking with his android phone...(if memory serves..)
The big boy corps are brilliantly diffusing their power and reach throughout society...so...soon...if one wants to do / get / have / order / pay for....anything...one must have an android or iphone...
It is an insidious objective ...
preying on all levels of society's desire for convenience..
and thus cornering and closing the market to any challengers...