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April 3, 2011, on iPhone versus Android:
Aren't Android & IOS really libraries running on Linux & FreeBSD? Seem to recall OSX was a Mac library on FreeBSD. These days, the middleware has become the operating system, & no-one mentions the UNIX part. The big question is not how many platforms a ball of spagetti like Android runs on but how consistent the Android implementation is across platforms. Java stacks tend to be extremely inconsistent across platforms & real spagetti hacks, especially with the multimedia & graphics. It costs a huge amount of money to implement a Java stack that uses the hardware to its full potential & complies with an open standard where many different vendors each sneak in their own idiotic requirements. At least the IOS is very good at maximizing the hardware. In a previous rant, you said Android users were better looking than iPhone users. At least around Silicon Valley, the iPhone users are about 10x better looking than the Android users. The huge surplus of baby boomer men have to bu...