Comment by rollcat
20 days ago
> Maybe it's time for a third large phone OS [...].
Apple and Google conspired to never allow that to happen. They've pushed Microsoft out of that sector. Microsoft! Name a bigger challenger.
20 days ago
> Maybe it's time for a third large phone OS [...].
Apple and Google conspired to never allow that to happen. They've pushed Microsoft out of that sector. Microsoft! Name a bigger challenger.
Microsoft pushed itself out of the sector by having a lousy mobile platform.
Microsoft had a phenomenal mobile platform. The only problem they had was that they failed to convince anyone to build apps for it.
> Microsoft had a phenomenal mobile platform.
I went through 3 generations of Windows Phone devices for work. The only thing phenomenal about them was the Zune-style UI. They were buggy and unreliable, even for the few apps they had.
The minor issue of not having any developers, developers, developers
GNU/Linux phones already exist, although they're indeed being harmed by the duopoly.
That was before AI coding assistants.
A language model will create the market force to displace an oligopoly in the most influential sector of our society?
Hedge your bets.
Considering that Google and Apple can use them too, tt's unclear to me whether you think AI coding assistants will make it easier or harder for a third competitor to enter the field.
Lmao