Software is what people want and once a software ecosystem settles in place it gets a lot harder to move away later because of all the stuff you have to adapt and fix.
As far as I can tell there's no inherent reason an x86 device would have worse battery than ARM if you use the right processor. Pick up some small Lunar Lake chip, tune it low, aggressively tune the tasks you allow to run in the background etc.
Cellular is a bit annoying, and I can't speak at all to the difficulty of integrating with legacy phone services, but data access seems pretty easy to get with an external modem (maybe power consumption will suck..)
Definitely phone software landscape is abysmal. Everyone trying to lock down their stores and charge egregious prices to developers for the privilege of giving them access to their captive user markets. Makes me appreciate how fortunate we are to have Linux at all, and even Windows is leagues better, although MS is doing everything they can to develop their own little walled garden, albeit thankfully that horse has long bolted.
Software is what people want and once a software ecosystem settles in place it gets a lot harder to move away later because of all the stuff you have to adapt and fix.
As far as I can tell there's no inherent reason an x86 device would have worse battery than ARM if you use the right processor. Pick up some small Lunar Lake chip, tune it low, aggressively tune the tasks you allow to run in the background etc.
Cellular is a bit annoying, and I can't speak at all to the difficulty of integrating with legacy phone services, but data access seems pretty easy to get with an external modem (maybe power consumption will suck..)
Definitely phone software landscape is abysmal. Everyone trying to lock down their stores and charge egregious prices to developers for the privilege of giving them access to their captive user markets. Makes me appreciate how fortunate we are to have Linux at all, and even Windows is leagues better, although MS is doing everything they can to develop their own little walled garden, albeit thankfully that horse has long bolted.