Have you thought about if Valve has the potential to interrupt the Mobile market via Proton and Linux?
I'm asking since I know a lot of people playing mobile games these days since games like Genshin Impact and Blue Archive are starting to make legitimate market share in the gaming industry, and I'm wondering if someone will make a new line of smartphones in order to cater to both the core gaming market and the mobile gaming market. I don't think Android is a viable platform since Google wants to make it more like iOS where they control the OS and the app store platform rather than letting the consumer decide where they want to get their apps. Not only that, but I was hoping Flatpaks would ultimately act as a storefront for more general apps and subscriptions like mobile games and subscription services, but I suspect there are players on that team who are worried about the financial involvement. Mind you I'm not attacking the Flatpak team for going full-on FOSS autism, it's completely understandable considering how sometimes money ruins community interactions and personal relationships
That being said, I think Steam and by extensions PC gaming appears to be rapidly growing while traditional consoles appear to be going extinct, I kinda makes me wonder about how someone could enter the mobile market by porting Linux to ARM, or maybe even have the Steam Deck 2 also work as a smartphone. I do know that Valve is experimenting with Waydroid, so I'm looking forward to seeing where that goes. Regardless, I'm interested to see if /v/, and the general market would be interested in something like a Steam phone that runs on a flavor of SteamOS specifically made for mobile phones.
You may think that playing traditional games on a phone is unbearable, and it usually is. Although you can make the argument that all it really needs is a packaged controller to make the device more accessible to traditional games. I know this for a fact since I see people using smartphone apps like Winlator to fully fledged Windows games with modern smartphones. Personally, I think it's incredible how far we've come with current tech that even a small project like Winlator can run something like DMC and GTA at around 40ish FPS, and the tech converting x86 to ARM will only get better with time. We've already seen high quality emulation via Yuzu on Android, I'm wondering what will happen in a few years once the conversion algorithms are made well enough to play games like how Linux anons can play windows games via Proton.
In any case, with the success of the Steam Deck and the Index, I wouldn't be surprised if Valve or another company makes a Linux a viable platform for mobile phones. I think companies like Google and Apple aren't really taking advantage of the platform like they should and having a company like System76 or Valve bring a cutting edge Linux smartphone to the masses should make the computer and gaming markets more interesting in my opinion.