It didn’t and they make good phones, but without access official access to Google play, you loose a lot of things ,especially with more casual users that don’t want to sideload. Also, some apps won’t work without the play integrity api, for example banking apps, making it harder to gain traction outside China.

“Same procedure as last year?”

“Same procedure as every year!”

Lookup glass cliff. Happened at reddit as well.

Check out Protondb, it’s not only for the steamdeck, but (probably) all Linux derivates. You can sync your steam library to see, what works and how well.

My kids love SchildiChat, because of the turtle.