I don't think so. Everything I love about my phone is possible only because the company that built the hardware also wrote the software. Whenever there is any k

I don't think so. Everything I love about my phone is possible only because the company that built the hardware also wrote the software. Whenever there is any kind of wedge driven between hardware and software, the resulting experience suffers, which costs me time and frustration (and a tiny bit of my life in the process). Software is the soul of a device, and hardware is its body. Either component in isolation fails to provide a useful, functioning device. It follows, then, that when the hardware and software are developed together that the most well-functioning device possible may be achieved.