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A comment on Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel. Parent comment

Re:Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel by pjmlp on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @05:22AM (#18654327)
MacOS being replaced by POSIX-based and Mach-based is an historical accident.

Had Steve Jobs been at somewhere else or Jean-Louis Gassée won his bid, and there wouldn't be a POSIX-based and Mach-based Mac OS X to talk about.

Linux is losing to MIT based OSes on embedded space, where OEM can have their cake and eat in what concerns FOSS.

If Android does get replaced by Fucshia you will see how much open source you will get effectively from mobile handsets OEMs.

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Re:Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel by godelmachine on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @05:39AM (#18654398)
>>If Android does get replaced by Fucshia you will see how much open source you will get effectively from mobile handsets OEMs.

Right now, only Apple has the knack to control OS version releases uniformly across all of its devices.

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