1. My question was what is it that 90% of people using the Pyra will be able to do under 'proper' Linux, but not Android. It isn't a loaded question, quite genuine. Your suggestion of people buying a different Chinese Android device doesn't really make any sense in the context (we aren't comparing the Pyra to other devices, we are simply talking about OS options for the Pyra).
2. This makes me think you have never used Android with a keyboard? Is that possibly true? The reason I speculate this is if you use Android with a proper keyboard you should know many things that are faster. I mean, take typical usage of someone on an Android device, say a mobile phone, write an email, write messages to friends, fill in web forms, type entries into Google search? All of the above is stuff that works much better with a proper keyboard.
3. With regards to the secure data vault bit coin wallet thing, that to me is most certainly the 10% minority.
4. Native GNU C++ being a big plus: I don't know the % split here of developers vs end users. When I look at the number of developers releasing software, it would be how many? Like how many people have contributing to the repo in the last 12 months? 200 people? How many Pandora devices are there? 4000? So about 5% of people are developers that release software? Sure there will be some people that write code that they never release, but is it really that high? I don't have the answers to these questions, but my speculation was that a large percentage of users would use Android without any problems.
I don't really want to continue any threads which insinuate people (including myself) are stupid, or with anyone who is going to be super defensive, or assume the position that I am 'against' them, as my post really was more of a question mark than anything. Up until I made the post, I was fully against Android, but then I asked myself why I felt like that, and the answers weren't as clear.
My apologies for getting to heated up and using words like 'stupid'.
I wanted a mobile productivity devices since ever. And I had many of them, some well known and some obscure. All of them with a keyboard. Of all of them the Android was the least usefull one. Sure I could have used the e-mail but I never wanted for some reason (I guess for somaller ones I'd simply use the smartphone, and for longer ones I prefer my MacBook Air 11"). Editing office documents would have been cumbersome with Android treatment of the filesystem so I never tried it, plus I wasn't sure on office documents formats how compatibel they were. The possibility for the things I could do on it were so limited for me. Compare that to a Windows and Linux devices I had, and I it is qualitatively different the freedom and possibilities I had.
I personaly never submited to the Pandora app store but I used it for programming. Store developers are the hardcore ones IMO. Between them and the non-programers there is a large spectrum of people programing now and then. Even if its for a simply pyton script or such.
Bitcoin data vault is definetely a minority but my point was it's just one of many use cases demonstrating the unique selling proposition such device has and probably there are numbor of similar examples.
Finaly why is a comparision of a Chinese Android device with Pandora/Pyra irelevant? I sill don't uderstand it, care to elaborate? It shows competition and potential alternatives for users. If you wanted Android gaming device why Pyra? If it's only to support ED and the comunity financialy you can donate half of the Pyra price and buy a chinece device - eventualy both you and ED would be better of financially. If you wanted a user friendly OS with a keyboard, again there are number of devices on the market having that with Android and Blackbery OS.
I'd argue that the opposite - ignoring the alternatives is the wrong approach showing a fiction view of the world and ignoring the current market. And while I can see some potential use cases for Android Pyra (and I recognised them in this post) I'd argue that those add little to no value to the current market, while Linux Pyra has many unique selling propositions to it's potential users.