Solana first unveiled its plan to gatecrash the telecoms space with a new Android phone calledabout a year ago. It also released the so-called Solana Mobile Stack, a set of libraries for developers to build mobile-first decentralized applications on the blockchain.
Emmett Hollyer, head of business operations at Solana Labs, said the ultimate goal is to make web3 simple enough that the device can appeal to"any consumer, whether they are crypto-centric, crypto-curious, or otherwise." Most of the negatives for Tynes, an Apple iPhone owner, chalks up to bugaboos with Android devices generally.
"We are already facing challenges getting these experiences approved in the major app stores, and we’ve only barely started," he said, referring to new features for Dialect."Saga will continue to be the platform on which we can design and ship experiences that are unconstrained by app store restrictions, and that are best for the user."In a sense, Saga's fate is tied to these developers and the robustness of its app store.