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I'd argue that these operating systems are much, much simpler than the entire stack that is iOS and its built in applications and services.
by Operyl 9y ago
I'd argue that these operating systems are much, much simpler than the entire stack that is iOS and its built in applications and services.
- pritambaral 9y agoI strongly disagree — not that that would be sufficient excuse. It's not like the kernel and drivers are spread across disparate layers of the iOS stack. It's not like iOS doesn't have libraries and system services and thus has to duplicate code across disparate layers of the iOS stack. It's not like Apple can't or doesn't have special code accessible only to Apple's apps and iOS internals. As of right now, there are only a handful of hardware configurations iOS has to support, and a single software configuration. Compared to the tens of different hardware and software configurations LineageOS has to support, or the hundreds of different hardware and software configurations Ubuntu and Red Hat have to support, or the thousands of different configurations Microsoft has to support, Apple's job here is a lot easier.
- sametmax 9y agoGiven that mac oses have only to support their hardware and that they limit what the user can do, not, not at all. The gnu/linux stack is richer and more complex.