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Why iOS
- djsumdog 10y agoHow about neither? You have the choice of Apple's closed proprietary system, or Google's not-really-open proprietary system. Google actually has the power to mandate hardware standards. You can't just sell an Android phone. You have to join the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), at which point, you can never make Amazon Fire devices. You can always release AOSP-based Android phones with no Google services, but good luck finding a market. Google has no interest in making hardware standard, because if they did, we might see other operating systems actually be able to take over the mobile market, much like Linux and the late 90s/early 2000s in the PC era: http://penguindreams.org/blog/android-fragmentation/ http://penguindreams.org/blog/android-fragmentation/ Microsoft required their devices to have standard UEFI, and are hence more hackable and easy to upgrade, but the bootloaders are locked and fewer people are using them today anyway. Plasma from KDE only officially supports two phones. ARM isn't a platform, it's a spec that should go die in a fire.