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What stops Windows? Business consumers paying for the OS and the fact that they don’t have any successful app store. What stops Valve?

Are you sure that’s relevant when every major Android OEM locks their bootloaders now? Illusion of an open system.

Lol, for someone who’s been proven to be factually wrong and talking out of ass multiple times already in this single thread you seem incredibly confident that I’m wrong.

Valve being a private company means that they can be even better at playing the long game. The end prize is a platform like Android or iOS so definitely worth it. Valve isn’t exactly a paragon of ethics, they profit heavily from gambling and know perfectly fine with their online casinos serving children. At least Goop targets middle aged women because it’s likely I’m having a conversation with a teenager who now vehemently defeats a multi-billion dollar business.

If you’re not happy with how communities are ran you can create your own. Nobody is hogging precious namespace so you can spin up @numismatics@treants.penis and run it any way you like.

You could build entire working Android system, dialer, launcher and other regular stuff included, from source. You had to supply some binary blobs for kernel drivers due to ARM platforms being a bit of a clusterfuck but that’s about it. Did people forget this already?

First public release of Android was in 2008 but you’re talking about several decades. No billionaire is your friend. Please sober up.

You did not address anything I’ve said really. I’m going to go with block because I value my time too much.

Plausible deniability.