> How hard would it be to have something like this? Very. Both because of the technical issues others in this thread mentioned, and because Android and iOS had

> How hard would it be to have something like this? Very. Both because of the technical issues others in this thread mentioned, and because Android and iOS had the unutterably massive advantages of starting from zero pre-existing software and having a single controlling authority. The controlling authority allowed them to avoid problems related to consensus or people working on other priorities. Starting from zero allowed them to not worry about existing software (the closest thing to a controlling authority that Linux has cares a lot about backwards compatibility).