Way back when, smartphones were a relatively new thing. Nobody gave a crap, so building a new OS that had similar capabilities to the competition was easy. We had a bunch of those over the years.
However, every new OS means new architecture, every architecture means developers having to take it into account when building apps.
Eventually, the smartphone market essentially defaulted to Android and iOS - long gone are Windows Phone, Blackberry OS, and a dozen others.
They didn't die off because they somehow had to - they died off because they couldn't keep up with feature parity with Android and iOS.
Nowadays, everything is being made for these two OSes. And by "everything" I mean things that are actually crucial to people - banking apps, ID apps, train ticket apps, parking lot apps - things that they either cannot replace with "not in a smartphone" solution, or can, but it would force them to juggle cards and papers.
Any new OS coming in must take that into account. If Linux comes to mobile phones but can't run national ID apps or banking apps, it will have a market share of maybe 1% - the hardcore fans, and the "technological preppers" who are always anonymous, always off-grid - and that's that. No users further users will switch, and because no users switch, no developers will take it seriously enough to make their apps work on it.
Windows Phone is a great example of this. At its height it had around 20% of the European market share. And what happened? Snapchat (massive at the time) and Google actively worked to undermine and destroy it, because they knew that - in the long run - it'll be cheaper than having to hire a third group of developers. With 3rd party alternative apps being constantly blocked, the OS eventually went down to sub 5% in its biggest market, and sub 1% in the US, and Microsoft finally pulled the plug.
An OS coming in without critical app support won't ever get to even 1% of market share in any region larger than "local Linux fanclub".
Again: you're not reading what I'm writing, you're only seeing "he's not 100% agreeing with me, therefore he's a Nazi Zionist colonialist genocide proponent".
You're the kind of person who calls another "Finnish" just because of the instance they're on. You're not interested in humanity, you're only interested in labels. It's sad and evil.
Europe is slowly working on that. Ironically, Trump's policies were kind of a blessing to Europe, because it forced politicians to finally start working towards strengthening the independence of the region.
Telling that you can’t separate a nation that was founded as a settler colony less than 80 years ago from its entire population.
Why do you consider Israel to be the settler colony, and not Palestine of both peoples were in the exact same situation 80 years ago? Both were living in the region (and spread out all around the world, with a higher percentage of Israelis than Palestinians "roaming") for thousands of years, both nations were established at the exact same time with the exact same resolution. How is only one of them a "settler colony"?
It’s about colonialism, which is exactly “Israelis” (colonizers) vs. Palestinians (the native people)
Again, this is only true if you either ignore all the archaeological and historical evidence we have, or are a fundamentalist extremist who's calling for a genocide. Which are you?
Where did I deny colonialism? I acknowledge the fact that Israel is occupying (and colonising) the West Bank and Gaza, I firmly believe they should be pushed out and forced to pay reparations for the decades of stealing land and killing Palestinians.
Is this "colonialism denial" to you?
Yeah, it’s all just colonialism denial. You are a genocidal colonialism supporter. No amount of calling “Israelis” “Israelites” to pretend they’re native to the region and not colonizers will make it true.
Israelis vs Israelites might come from language barrier. English is not my native language.
But saying they're not native to the region when we have archaeological and historical evidence of them being there over 3000 years ago is either extreme ignorance, or fundamentalist extremism.
Ok but you don’t reject the Israeli State. Which was founded on a genocide
I disagree here.
Palestinians and Israelites lived in the region for - literally - thousands of years, but neither had a nation. The exact same resolution that established Israel, also established Palestine, and that happened after the "civil war" between them. It wasn't genocide, it was a ham-fisted attempt at stopping a genocide, because both parties wanted to eliminate the other.
Do I agree to all Israel's policies, including the occupation of West Bank and Gaza? Absolutely not. Do I agree that the way these two nations were established was correct? Absolutely not.
But this is what they got, and they need to learn to live with it. Just like Qatar did. Or Yemen. Or Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and Jordan, etc. They were all established by the colonial powers after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, they were all created by moronic Europeans who divided the land based off of oil reserves, and not history, culture, or religion. But - somehow - you don't see Qatar fighting Bahrain non stop, or Emirates bombing the Saudis.
This is like saying you’re anti-genocide but you support the US’s right to exist.
I'm against going "ooh, but historically X should be Y". What's the historical state you want to turn back the borders to? Should Poland stop existing because we're turning back time to the 18th century? Are we going back to 19th century, where Ukraine was under the russian boot? What is the "correct" state of the world's borders, in your opinion?
So, it's not about "Israelis vs Palestinians", or wider, "Israelis vs Arabs". It's just literally about the establishment of Israel as a nation? That's it?
Explain to me, how are you not a proponent of genocide if you want to eliminate a nation?
The Palestinian people are a people who have lived in that region for hundreds of years, just because they were previously occupied by Ottomans doesn’t mean there’s no material basis for the nation of Palestine being present in the region.
So, exactly like Israelites? Good to see that you actually agree with them having a right to a nation state!
The Jews like the Roma are a stateless nation
Yeah, just like Palestinians were, up until around 1947. 1918 if you count Mandatory Palestine.
Further, Jews have remained present in Palestine and have peacefully coexisted with them, there’s no reason to believe they wouldn’t be represented under a Palestinian state
Well, if you ignore all historical data that has very clearly shown Jews and Israelites being persecuted in the region, which was the region for them leaving it in large enough numbers to be considered a stateless nation like the Roma - yeah, then you're absolutely correct.
Aggression between the two groups only started when a genocidal settler colony began using our name, the Jewish People, to justify their actions.
Again, you'd be correct if you ignore the entirety of the history of the region. The persecution of Israelites started around 700 BCE, mate.
You think this is because of Netanyahu and that this genocide is a recent thing?
Yes, the genocide is a recent thing considering the Palestinian population has been steadily growing, while their culture was not in any danger of being wiped out.
This genocide is inherent to the state of “Israel”, which is a settler colony. If you believe “Israel” should exist, you are a genocide defender.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're out to get you right after they've finished eating their newborn babies. WTF are you smoking,
If you believe “Israel” should exist, you are a genocide defender.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what "genocide" means.
Funnily enough - YOU are a proponent of genocide, if you believe the Israelites should have their nationality removed. That's literally one of the defining aspects of a genocide.
No, I just think people who think colonialism is acceptable are enemies. Because they are.
I don't defend colonialism >as defined in real life<. It's not what you consider to be "colonialism", but that's just because you're a fundamentalist and an extremist.
I refuted the idea that this is a thousand year conflict
Ah, OK, so you're just refuting the idea that Israelites have lived there, in that very same region, for thousands of years, for which we have archaeological and historical data? All of that is a hoax? Like, an Egyptian dude was going "LOL, let's write those guys in, hilarity will ensue 3000 years later"?
None of the bullshit you’re spewing has anything to do with that.
Wow, maybe if you elaborated on what you meant, like I asked, then I'd understand what you meant better? Weird how communication works, eh?
Thank you for quoting the exact part that I asked you to elaborate on.
Just so I get it right: you're of the belief that the entire "Iran gets equipment from russia, sends it to Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthi, with the money to up operations and cause chaos, and Hamas/Hezbollah use these resources to strike at random targets in Israel", something that is confirmed by intelligence material from the entirety of NATO, Ukraine, India, Pakistan, Emirates, Saudis, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Yemen, Oman, Egypt, and Sudan - ALL of that is fabricated and designed "to obscure the very clear and obvious colonial nature of 'Israel'"?
I love how you guys call me a "genocide defender" after I've stated so many times that Netanyahu and everybody responsible for the genocide should be tried and eliminated. :D
You're exactly like MAGA - a fundamentalist who believes that if someone isn't 100% committed to ALL tenets of your cause, they're a traitor and an enemy. This tribalism is pathetic and a cancer on our society.
You mean the colony established over the legitimate Palestinian State?
Palestinian State didn't exist before the very same resolution that created Israel. It was the Palestinian Region of the Ottoman Empire. It's like calling people living in the Alps "Alpians" and stating that "the French and the Swiss colonised the legitimate Alpian State".
Israelites, just like Palestinians, have a historical claim to that territory. If you firmly believe that they should not have any part of it - where would you place them?
Oh! That's a great example!
Show me on the map which countries have partitioned and taken over Germany's lands after WW2!