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>>todsac+(OP)
> The original PinePhone was brought up on the existing Linux Mobile projects like Ubuntu Touch, postmarketOS, and Maemo Leste, and also spawned new Linux distributions like Mobian and Danctnix ARM. This grew until there were 25 different projects working on the PinePhone — an apparently thriving community.

What you see as a thriving community, others might see as a fragmented market. I don't know if this makes sense, but it feels like the multiple distributions and overlapping projects trades off deep development for broad development.

Maybe it's the inevitable result of everybody scratching their own itch and doing what they can do, or maybe it's a sign of a community that can't work together.

>>cridde+fm
Well I think at this stage we can hardly call it a market -- it's not 10 different android distros that stem off from a solid codebase, but different groups of developers that interact with each other to bring up the base.

When you destroy the nest for these dev groups, there will be no more software for a fancy distro to package.