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Yes but without Android we might have gotten something decent.

• manquer 5y ago
  Maybe, I am doubtful cause none of the OEMs have a good track record of building good quality software, open (well documented) APIs /interfaces and making it available to their peers. Anyone working in the embedded world will greatly appreciate how awsome this is in android world, all the OEMs are terrible at making documentation and getting access is super hard unless you are working at Big Co. Microsoft / IBM did something similar with PC and windows software standardization earlier. Windows APIs had their problems sure, but one of reasons Windows became so big was a direct result of stuff worked between major versions, back in the 90's they were fanatically focused on backward compatibility and it really made the difference. A large external push is always needed for OEMs to follow open / documented standards, they are traditionally/ culturally opaque , perhaps another player like Microsoft could have done it better/differently. However I doubt without an large market maker(with their own agenda) involved I am doubtful we would gotten anything decent.