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Originally Posted by ApK
One of the best things about Linux is that it facilitates so many cool and successful solutions that get built on top of it, like Tivo, Kindle, DD-WRT, and...oh, yeah...Android.
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When an open product is repackaged/bundled as a proprietary one, it
loses quality, versatility, usefulness, and trustworthyness.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
... which just goes to prove that what's under the hood is irrelevant. The typical user neither knows nor cares what o/s the device is running.
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A car buyer may not directly care what it looks like under the hood, but if the mechanics job is made difficult, the buyer is hit too. Users benefit indirectly from having sensible mechanics under the hood (as opposed to the racket you get with BMW and the special proprietary computer that's needed and only available to "certified" BMW mechanics).
A closed ecosystem impacts the quality of available apps. A lot of android apps are junk.. lots of spyware and adware, quickly evident when you look at the list of permissions required by a random sampling of arbitrary apps. Just as most of the junk you get in the Windows ecosystem created by those trying to make a buck, as opposed to those produced by the FOSS community, usually with nothing monetary to gain - just pride.