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Originally Posted by Stinger
The problem is that we're not the direct customers of the OS developers. The OS developers sell their wares to the handset manufacturers who then sell their devices to the operators. The average consumer actually has very little say it which operating system lives or dies.
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You do have a good point. Our only say is in the form of the sales figures for the devices in the market. And as you mentioned, if an OS is not picked up then we have no say. :-(
Wonder how this carrier's plans to control/retrict the OSes affect future innovation. In the immediate future the iPhone with Mac OS and also possible Google phone?
And when the carriers say Linux, shouldn't they be specific? Aren't there way to many flavors of mobile Linux? :?