The people who make an open-source iOS-like experience will go down in history. Square certainly has the UX taste required, but I just wish we had something beyond an Android base to work with. Wish there were a way to reuse existing Swift iOS apps in a new open-source operating system… maybe a Unix-based OS (Darwin) as the foundation, like iOS’s.
Even if it started as an expensive, luxury freedom phone for the wealthy class… that’s how Tesla started, built great branding from the luxury pricing, then trickled down into the cheaper/wider market later on.
You always gotta capture the smaller market first. A Bitcoin/Nostr community focused phone working on an iOS-like experience would be killer… *cough cough*