Because the OS you care about on your smartphone isn't linux or ios, it's webkit/blink, and nobody on earth has the capital and the business case for porting a

Because the OS you care about on your smartphone isn't linux or ios, it's webkit/blink, and nobody on earth has the capital and the business case for porting a modern web stack to anything at all different. The BSDs are allowed to play because of POSIX, but only if they hop on the video driver treadmill. In short, there's no money in it, which is the real takeaway from this article.