They should've just said from the beginning that they were going to work in very small steps due to being with literally only a couple of people. It's really silly that they first make all this buzz that they'll do this and that and write an OS from scratch and release a phone and now backtrack to say "sorry, we're only going to make something nobody will use on a proprietary platform, maybe in 20 years we'll write the first lines of a kernel for indieOS". Aral seems to be a great guy, but I pity the fool(s) who believed that this could actually become reality anytime soon.