>The business side couldn't figure out how to monetize an Android-based operating system. When they got a clue of how to monetize something, it didn't depend on the OS.
Probably the same path as any OS nowadays: using you OS as a commodity to support a distribution of software/HWs you lock away from users.
Non standardized poorly engineered/proprietary HW and poorly documented SoC makes it impossible for an OS to survive without the support of big companies.
FOSS massively benefits nowadays the worst actors on the HW/SW markets possible. If you wait long enough you will see the heroes turn into the villains. (cf The Watchmen).
> FOSS massively benefits nowadays the worst actors on the HW/SW markets possible. If you wait long enough you will see the heroes turn into the villains. (cf The Watchmen).
This is really only true of OSS, not Free (Libre) Software, which is why that distinction is so important.
I have an iPhone. Can someone explain to me why you would want "nightly builds" of your phone operating system (or any other software) if you are not a developer? I guess I don't understand why Cyanogen tried to turn into a company.
I'm scared of updating my phone because I'm afraid of what will break next. As an example: for a long while using find in PDFs was broken in Safari.
Most people don't want to update nightly. What they want is to use the first build that fixes the bug that they particularly hate, or includes the new feature that they particularly want.
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[ 76.1 ms ] story [ 579 ms ] threadHow does that work?
The link explains it better.
[0] https://redd.it/5k5d7x
[1] https://archive.org/details/cmarchive_snapshots
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5k55vo/the_dea...
Any speculation on what this might be? User data?
Non standardized poorly engineered/proprietary HW and poorly documented SoC makes it impossible for an OS to survive without the support of big companies.
FOSS massively benefits nowadays the worst actors on the HW/SW markets possible. If you wait long enough you will see the heroes turn into the villains. (cf The Watchmen).
This is really only true of OSS, not Free (Libre) Software, which is why that distinction is so important.
I'm scared of updating my phone because I'm afraid of what will break next. As an example: for a long while using find in PDFs was broken in Safari.
Otherwise, they wait for Milestone releases.