[General Topics] chinarabbit:
in theory, perhaps

in practice, and in reality, Open Source Android hasnt helped the community at all

It may be Open Source, but all that apparently means is that Carriers & Phone Companies have a bit more freedom to limit functionality

This poor Android Community is blinded by the term "Open Source", whilst they work tirelessly to make these phones work properly

what they are actually doing is hacking the phone to death, in a thousand different ways.. and there should never be any need to hack anything that is truly Open Source, in order to get the functionality you want

this so-called Open Source Android has benefited nothing and nobody but the carriers & phone manufacturers

FYI, a Windows Mobile 7 solution wouldnt cost you, or the community a dime.. it would be the carriers & Phone Manufacturers who pay for it.

instead, they get it for free, and they've acted like monkeys with it

I wouldnt doubt at all that they pay people to post "Open Source Android" propaganda on the internet, in forums just like this, in order to avoid having to be regulated by a company like Microsoft

what they get is a platform that lets them exploit your user statistics for their own fiscal gain, that info goes directly out to make a profit from you, without them having to pay a penny for it

I would rather my info be gathered by Microsoft, or at least give Microsoft control over how its done.

Microsoft is too big and too powerful to be used as a tool by marketing & telecom companies to exploit their customer

Free & Open Source SOFTWARE is what its all about

yet, i cant believe how petty the Android Developer market is.. every single app out there has limited functionality and pro & paid versions

I'd say, in the history of OS's, Android has the least Open Source development for it

Everyone wants Open Source OS so they can turn around and make a profit for their software?

there is no "Spirit of the Open Source" happening in the Android Community

Windows Mobile, on the other hand, had mostly completely free programs with no advertisements, limitations or strings attached

I think most people just cant see the vast forest of non-Open-Source development through the Open-source Android OS tree

Free & Open Source refers to the community of Software Developers.. not to an OS that comes free for you in your phone anyway..

an Open Source OS isnt affecting you in any way

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---------- Post added at 01:32 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:12 AM ----------

the situation with Android is what happens when you give private, poorly-operated marketing companies and private telecom giants their very own OS

you get a little isolated world of people who's sole interest is making profits from people through any little crappy idea they can possibly think up.. and exactly nothing else

One thing I will say for Microsoft.. in my 20+ year love-hate relationship with the company, is at least they're a Computer company, full of geeky computer people, who's sole mission on earth is to create a better computer, further technological advancements in the are of computing, and to create a better computing Platform...

definitely not something I will ever say of Google, who's interest, as an advertising & Statistic-selling company, is quite contradictory, and an inherent conflict of interest when it comes to the implementation of its OS. which is created for Profiting people who couldnt give a crap about computers, computing, or computer users except as far as it lets them draw profits into other market segments

and such an OS as Google's combined with their ethic, mission, & goals, has created an Android world with an entire army of bad-marketing minions who exist for making money and spamming you with adverts

Microsoft's Community of users, on the other hand, is pure computing, and all about the love of computing

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---------- Post added at 01:50 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:32 AM ----------

isnt it kind of funny how practically every single android app made is like a tiny little google eco-system all of its own?

Statistics gathering like crazy.. "want to install this app? we just need total and complete access to your underpants and everything happening in them."

and even all the cute little advertisements to annoy the crap out of you at every turn

not "haha" funny, per se, but sort of that funny that makes you sigh, lower your head whilst giving a slow, pathetic shake, and turn your back towards them and walk off looking for enjoyment from life, away from your phone

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