I&#x27;ve got a Jolla phone running Sailfish, which is reasonably open. I&#x27;m happy with it because as an advanced user I can enable developer mode and modify or fix things. It&#x27;s a stable and usable system. But Jolla doesn&#x27;t seem to be doing so well right now. Before that I had a Nokia N9, the only Maemo phone, precurser to Sailfish. Another capable although minimal system. That didn&#x27;t go anywhere either, because Nokia sold out to Microsoft – who by the way don&#x27;t seem to be doing so well either in the mobile space.<p>Also Firefox seems to have thrown the towel in the ring already.<p>I&#x27;m waiting to see what Ubuntu comes up with in the phone&#x2F;tablet space. It&#x27;s certainly taking a long time.<p>I don&#x27;t understand that with all the people concerned about rights and privacy, and all the open-source affectionados, there just doesn&#x27;t seem to be that much of a market for alternatives to the big two of Android and Apple iOS.<p>Is it because of locked-down hardware? Or that Linux on desktop and mobile is not a (funding) priority? Or are people that addicted to downloading low-quality apps (i.e. the &quot;eco-system&quot;)? Or is there simply not enough demand?