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If that's your concern, Android (the story's topic) is very much popular among consumers.

Windows, MacOS and IOS also are, but the community cannot port these.

There are less popular / niche, community-run OS projects like Haiku which already run on RISC-V.



Yep! This is why, despite not being an Android user, I’m (speculatively) happy to see Google kind of kick-starting the software ecosystem. Hopefully that’ll lead to higher performance hardware, and it’ll eventually hit the point where we want to run proper desktop Linux on it.

Still some potential pitfalls, hopefully we won’t get super locked down hardware (I’m under the impression that that’s a bit of a problem in the phone universe).




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