That’s nice, but the countries are too different in economics. Estonia can’t push China to change their foreign politics.

Why speculate if we can just wait and see?

Romans: SPQR, not SQL!

We can’t afford anything more expensive and in too many cases the quality of those more expensive things isn’t better.

That’s the USA terminology, in Europe it is called corruption.

Predict on what input?

Just copy the source code here.

Wait until you try an IDE.

Most Linux users don’t compile anything and live happily.

ecosystem

It shouldn’t be replaced. It should be thrown away. Smartphones should be just handheld computers for running an arbitrary OS to run user programs. Nobody needs, wants or asked for the “ecosystem”.

Linux has been around for 30 years already. There isn’t any technical reason why it isn’t more widespread. Reasons are artificial: only blobs instead of drivers for any phone-related modules.

I never liked the idea of that “obligatory Java”. I would prefer something more like a common OS for running common programs written in whatever language the programmer wants.

I don’t want Android to be open. I want it to die.

So instead of teaching your kids basic human interaction with trivial objects, you would prefer an Indian guy doing it with a teleoperated 20k chassis? Yes, my idea of parenting is vastly differs from yours :)

opening doors, fetching items and turning the lights on or off

That’s worthless.

teleoperation

I got rid of Microsoft, getting rid of Google and dozens of other surveillance aggregators. Why would I want this?

The idea is dead on arrival. Except maybe for a few very specific circumstances.

Start with doing something evil and kinky, then scratch the old wound…