The decision to develop the first GNOME phone while also developing a hacker-friendly privacy-respecting physical device is going to be the death of this project.<p>I don't understand why they didn't just focus on the hardware, make it very hackable for the community to develop the GNOME (or any other) OS for it.<p>Isolate the baseband from the application processor and all the other privacy-respecting hardware decisions, land all the changes required for a mainline kernel to support everything upstream, and release it with AOSP running on it.<p>Then invest in the community to replace AOSP (and sell more of your hardware to said community as it grows).