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It’s weird that Linux won as a platform on mobile and it was partially due to Apple making it so that phone carriers had less influence on phones so the carrier
by zitterbewegung 9y ago
It’s weird that Linux won as a platform on mobile and it was partially due to Apple making it so that phone carriers had less influence on phones so the carriers needed something to claw it back with .
- Yetanfou 9y agoLinux 'winning' on mobile has nothing to do with Apple doing anything at all. It 'won' mostly because it was chosen as the base for Android as well as several other mobile platforms (Intel's Moblin, Nokia's Maemo, the combined offspring called Meego, Samsung's Tizen, etc). Android 'won' for the same reason that Windows 'won', it was available for all to use in more or less any way they saw fit. The carriers had nothing to do with Android 'winning', that is mostly due to the availability of affordable unlocked devices from a multitude of sources, a market which Apple can not and does not want to touch as the profit margins and opportunities for lock-in are too low.