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You make a valid point, that there are some key apps that are necessary for a new smartphone OS to be viable as a daily driver for the unwashed masses. But that's also just a matter of money. If you roll up to each of the major app's companies with a big enough pile of money, and ask the right person there to port it to your new OS, I bet you could make it happen. (If you don't know the right person, capital also lets your get access to them as well.)

As far as being an "also ran", I mean, that's going to be true for any LLM as well. Your second rate LLM is also always going to be seen as inferior just because it isn't ChatGPT, regardless of any other actual merits. Human psychology is fascinating because they aren't rational. Every time I get fooled into buying some stupid piece of crap because there was an advertisement that tickled my brain in the exact right way, I see just how irrational everybody is, given just the right set of words. Why do I bring this up? We could waste countless hours arguing over the infeasibility of a phone OS vs the infeasibility of an LLM, it's all in our heads, but doing so wouldn't get us closer to the goal, which is dominated by the singular question: can you virtualize enough, and pass through enough of android, to get banking apps to run in a VM on some real hardware, so that dom0 can be debian?