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Hah. This is ridiculous. "Android is closed!" they scream. "Android is fragmented!" they continue to yell. The same arguments, year after year after year. And g
by cryptoz 15y ago
Hah. This is ridiculous. "Android is closed!" they scream. "Android is fragmented!" they continue to yell. The same arguments, year after year after year. And guess what? The popular open source operating system keeps getting better, keeps gaining users, keeps continuing to show up on new devices. Android as we know it isn't going to disappear. Anyone suggesting it is just isn't with it.
- davidpitkin 15y agoI feel the reality is that Android is open when you look at gerrit, Cyanogenmod, and the Apache license. The closed view is the inability to view the source of what is on the devices that people buy, view the in-process development work by the major contributors, and the bootloaders on all of the popular devices. Android as a side-by-side simple competitor to the iPhone is dead because it is so much bigger now than what can fit on a single Cupertino conference table, and that's awesome.
- gonzo 15y agoOne word: ChromeOS.