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Because Apple's been a bit too effective in dominating the industry, for reasons other than usability or technical superiority; since growing to the top they ca
by jrm4 3y ago
Because Apple's been a bit too effective in dominating the industry, for reasons other than usability or technical superiority; since growing to the top they can leverage inertia and other factors.
I have no idea what you think "ideals" and "being uncouth" have to do with any of this; referring to OSS as e.g. an "ideology" strikes me as a weird misunderstanding of its present role in tech. It's not theory, fam, damn near the entire cloud runs on it today.
- dagmx 3y agoBut there have been Android tablets and Linux touchscreens. The article already states that these companies make their own hardware prior to the iPad, and the NovaTouch in the article is based around Android devices. Yet none of them meet the goal here. So clearly the open sourceness of the platforms is not what’s holding things back. The reason I mention ideals is because you came in to the discussion and effectively said “open source would solve this” but it’s such a non sequitur from the problem at hand, especially given the history of the field. You’re interjecting your own belief that the lack of ann open source platform is the reason without actually bothering to understand the problem space involved and the players that exist. Just because the cloud runs on open source doesn’t mean much for this. The cloud also runs on closed source hardware.
- type0 3y ago> The cloud also runs on closed source hardware. Most of the mobile hardware is closed source, i.e requiring closed sourced drivers so building a fully open source mobile OS is always problematic.