>> If you ask 99%+ of phone users. They don’t care about a “closed” phone platform anymore than console owners care. No one cares until they are personally imp

>> If you ask 99%+ of phone users. They don’t care about a “closed” phone platform anymore than console owners care. No one cares until they are personally impacted. >> And failing miserable. The market has spoken. Markets shift with time and circumstances. Those on top will not be there forever. >> And yet, it wasn’t “open standards” that brought any of the “innovations” to the market that users care about. Most users are ignorant of the standards that they rely on. iOS and Android are built on POSIX standards and rely on numerous networking and telecommunication standards. The Internet and World Wide Web that people use their smartphones to access are built on standards. The "magical" experiences that Apple sells to users would not be possible without a veritable book of engineering standards: https://www.ietf.org/standards/rfcs/ https://www.ietf.org/standards/rfcs/ https://www.iso.org/home.html https://www.iso.org/home.html https://www.ecma-international.org/ https://www.ecma-international.org/ >> How many decades have Linux advocates been promising the “year of the Linux desktop”? I am not sure why you keep pulling Linux into the discussion. Just because Android uses Linux does not mean that other smartphone platforms would use it.