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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by typon on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @09:57AM (#17558388)
I think Android's popularity and extremely quick adoption owes itself to the fact that it's open source.
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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by scarface74 on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:00AM (#17559019)
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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