SailfishOS runs on the standard Android kernel, so it should be easy to port Android to the phone. The whole Android/libhybris approach coincidentally also the reason I'm not interested in this phone, and why I am of the opinion that GrapheneOS is the wrong approach unless if you ONLY care about cutting out Google from your personal data. What about all others that still can have access?

you can still rent computer resources that are 5-7 years old on AWS/Azure/etc. Why write off hardware when there are still willimg customers paying for them? It's not competitive compared to modern compute in terms of perf/watt (and thus perf/$), but some customers don't want to (re)valide proper functioning on a different platform.

what use is a secure OS if you cannot trust the unauditable binary blobs for the wifi, bluetooth and 4g/5g radio, nor can you trust most telcos who can run SIM apps with very low level access to the baseband without your knowledge or consent?

And if you actually had read wikipedia you would quickly find out that he's a technocrat and independant.

Intel has been consistently failing at Ai as well as almost everything else, so I don't see how that's going to be a hedge for an AI bubble pop. The only things Intel would be a good hedge for are success and a CCP takeover of Taiwan (admittedly this may have some value as the chances for this are likely far underappreciated in the market).

if the foundry splits off today, I would expect a GlobalFoundries result, with arrested development of new node sizes, as there isn't enough money to finance it. Keeping design and fabbing in one entity may at least force transfer of income from the design part to finance the new node sizes.

Do you have any metrics to back up the claim that the vast majority of people could upgrade to Windows 11? Considering that the current Windows 11 release only supports 11th gen Intel CPUs and up, I very much doubt that covers the 'vast majority of people' who are on Windows 10.

He had his priorities wrong - at least for my preferences. World-class camera and a flagship soc are the two areas I am willing to comprise for compact size, in order to get minijack audio and better battery capacity and autonomy.

I think the problem is that Sony is too small a player on the smartphone market so nobody cares - unless a phone OS developer buys one and ports support for their own satisfaction. For Samsung the issue is that their stack is too propriety vs AOSP. For example, they run their own stack for VoLTE VoWifi and VoNR, making 3rd party roms near-useless in areas where 2g and 3g have been phased out.

Not just Sony. Now the smallest Android is a Samsung S-series or a Sony Xperia 10 (the latter is narrower but taller).

Maybe but almost nobody In the alternative OS (or alt-Android flavors) cares about Sony phones. I have an Xperia 10 iii, and the only non Sony ROM that is available is Sailfish OS afaik.

My condolences. Was the bootloader unlocked, making it possible to install a non-castrated OS?

They already have that, it's used to run windows-based services on Azure, in the form of Cloud Host OS and the equivalent running as guest VMs.

That implied devices with Win 11 SE were ever really sold. I doubt that happened, at least not in significant volume.

Umm.. relieved that I haven't contributed to these profits?