
Funny thing...
"There is plenty of interest in the idea of a phone that is free from Google or Apple..."
Oooh, I recall there being just such a thing some five to ten years ago... it got up to about 10% of the UK market share too, along with widespread panning from a lot of people on here who had never used it, but preferred Android "because Android was Linux-based", and therefore open source...
... oh yeah, that right. It was made by Microsoft...