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This is like people who think they are vegan so their pets should be too. At no point in the future is your kid going to say "wow dad thanks for teaching me ho

by mike_d 5y ago

This is like people who think they are vegan so their pets should be too. At no point in the future is your kid going to say "wow dad thanks for teaching me how to stand up to the corporate overlords and opening my eyes to what shit iOS is!" Instead the conversation is going to be "Dad can you loan me money for rent this month? I replaced the proprietary freedom hating operating system on the cash register with an open source alternative and corporate had to fly someone out to fix it so they fired me."

bluSCALE4 5y ago
You keep thinking that. At the end of the day, if you understand an OS, you can figure out mobile OS in a weekend. Try to setup a web server and write a React application using CI/CD pipeline. While it can be done, it takes hours on mobile and minutes in a Desktop OS. If anything, the tablet will be cannibalized by the Desktop OS as we're already seeing so arguing that I'm doing harm is a moot point.