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For one thing, nobody cares about it and they will never care about it.
Usability and convenience trump those concerns 100% of the time.
The point of a device killing it is you have to compete on usability and convenience as a trojan horse for your political stance on those issues.
The problem is how you get there given the extreme costs of hardware development (let alone of matching the Google components of Android) and the massive incentive to... you know, make money. The few things that meet that description are hard to use, clunky, underpowered and unappealing.
That's the problem someone needs to fix. I just don't see anybody even seriously trying, beyond niche products for techheads.
I'd lower the bar TBH.
No need to have something powerful. No need to have three cameras almost good enough for professional purposes.
Hardware development is not that extremely expensive in this case, it's not an iPad, we need to fit something like RPi with Linux and Gnome into a box with a battery, a few antennae and peripheral devices. Make microphone and camera with a hardware switch. Maybe even a GPS antenna with that.
It has to be marketed accordingly, as something less. The box shouldn't be thinner than an iPad or cooler than an iPad, just convenient enough to hold. Ergonomic tests are not that hard. I mean, hiring people to do them costs something, yes.
What matters in marketing when you're the underdog - is being precise. When you're the overlord, you are teaching the consumers what to expect, so you can misposition a product. Here, I think, you can't.
So if you can't compete in the same niche, make a slightly (but clearly) different niche and make it clear that you are aiming for that, and make a device for that.
And make (like Apple does) a few scripted ways of using the device. Thoroughly checked to be workable.
I guess this adds up to some expense, but not nearly what those companies spend trying to make their things thin, sleek and hard to repair, and appealing to blonde girls.
Ah, like a chromebook!
Didn't go super well though
No, the opposite. To have a normal Linux and an open hardware system. And no Broadcom.
Actually a reimagining of olden ThinkPads with proper screen ratios and keyboards and everything would be nice too.
Refurbished ones have a few downsides.