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pottedmeat7

Android existed but Google made it what is is, certainly a significant amount of work went in to make it the globally used OS that it is today.

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Rémy 🤖

Nobody created anything, it's just piecing stuff together and marketing it.

The point is, Android is crap, iOS is crap and mono/duopoly is really bad. Especially over your data.

We need libre alternatives and Firefox is an excellent option against the Blinkopoly

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pottedmeat7 • Edited

They both are widely used and loved so they are clearly not "crap".

As Bill Gates stated Microsoft made a mistake by allowing Android to gain as much traction as it did. In other words he wished Microsoft would have smashed Android and replaced it with a Microsoft product.
So whatever was "not created" defeated Microsofts dominance.

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zakius

Apple destroyed smartphones before anyone even used this name, they forced the market to sell devices designed merely to display pictures instead of supporting actual work
and years later that course became even more obvious with devices you have no chance of handling with a single hand, glassy, slippery and abnormally big