Smartphones are quite powerful devices. Imagine the possibilities if we actually had low level access to the hardware. There is no good operating system for mob

Smartphones are quite powerful devices. Imagine the possibilities if we actually had low level access to the hardware. There is no good operating system for mobile devices and honestly while they had a huge impact, the technical aspect of it is rather disappointing apart from the miniaturization on the hardware level. But that is not at all unique to smartphones. Sadly Japan seems to concentrate on the rather disappointing market ecosystem withing rather disappointing operating systems. A problem you wouldn't even have had in truly open systems. Not only the fault of the software developers, the component manufacturers played their part here too. I think it is true that Google and Apple are competing against each other. But they also have an understanding that they two also fight against their customers because here they have common interests.