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The 2010 "phone wars"
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Quite an old joke.
I do miss my old Blackberry 9900
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I miss having a viable "3rd" option.
The rise of the iPhone and Android was a wild time back in the early 2010s.
A third Option would be bad. Many apps can't manage to build a good App for two platforms, imagine having to support 3. Also Android is so flexible you can build it into pretty much anything.
With a little luck, things like Graphene could be that 3rd option, sort of.
The big problem is Android doesn't require a standard BIOS like PCs ended up with. So hardware drivers have to be developed/released by the hardware vendor (which they generally don't publish them).