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Re:Thank Steve Jobs by revorad on Saturday August 27, 2011 @04:23AM (#2931116)
Are you suggesting Android is not controlled by a huge corporation? Android is a lot more open than iOS, but the interaction with customers is completely controlled by a handful of corporations.

We need an open source hardware device running a truly open source OS. That would be really nice.

EDIT: Even if we don't have open source hardware, what would be great is having the ability to buy modular parts to build up our own devices. This used to be common practice with desktops, but got totally killed since laptops took over.

If I had an extra life, that would be my startup.

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Re:Thank Steve Jobs by MatthewPhillips on Saturday August 27, 2011 @09:20AM (#2931396)
I'm worried that we'll never be able to build our own phones the way we can build our own PCs with commodity hardware due to the crazy patent situation.

Probably hardware and software will continue to be locked down (or in Android's case, released to open-source many many months after official release), but we'll be rescued by the web the same way we were in the PC era.

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