>trying to redefine "operating system" to include things that have never been a part of such a term before, That ship has sailed. All mainstream users expect t

>trying to redefine "operating system" to include things that have never been a part of such a term before, That ship has sailed. All mainstream users expect those things to be standard in any mobile OS. > it's as open as it's ever been You're out of the loop. A lot of apps/APIs/frameworks which were maintained as part of AOSP have been abandoned to the point of being useless after Google introduced proprietary playstore versions. >Given that both the protocols and client libraries can change at any time without announcement, How do you then claim that android is "as open as it has ever been", when this was not the case before since android had fewer proprietary libs.