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0 pointstypon7y ago0 comments

I think Android's popularity and extremely quick adoption owes itself to the fact that it's open source.

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It owes to being free not open source. OEMs really only had three choices. Create their own OS (horrible choice), use Windows Mobile or use Android. The deciding factor was free. Phone manufacturers no more cared about open source than Windows anufacturers.

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0 pointstypon7y ago0 comments

I think Android's popularity and extremely quick adoption owes itself to the fact that it's open source.

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scarface747y ago

It owes to being free not open source. OEMs really only had three choices. Create their own OS (horrible choice), use Windows Mobile or use Android. The deciding factor was free. Phone manufacturers no more cared about open source than Windows anufacturers.

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