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"Your phone - primarily open source" Is the iPhone actually primarily open source? There's certainly parts of iOS that are but I had no idea it was the majorit
by ClassyJacket 9y ago
"Your phone - primarily open source"
Is the iPhone actually primarily open source? There's certainly parts of iOS that are but I had no idea it was the majority of it.
- lucb1e 9y agoThe vast majority of phone is Android, though. One of the reasons I'd always recommend Android to friends and family is the open source component, even if said friends and family have no direct benefit from it (only indirect, through open source stuff being used and us being able to look at it and improve it).
- codegladiator 9y agoHe meant android I guess.
- striking 9y agoMac OS is made of large swathes of open source code... but before publishing the source of the kernel, Apple runs a script to strip out anything iOS-specific. That's just one example but I think it portrays Apple's iOS-OSS relationship pretty well.