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You’d still need to support iOS even if running other operating systems was possible on these devices. I don’t get what you mean.


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Then you would want to be able to run Android apps surely? IOS apps are hyper-focused on a limited set of specific hardware produced by a single vendor. Not to mention that Apple sucks to develop for without actually having Apple hardware and Apple operating systems available.

Then... May I ask why only Apple devices are officially supported right now?

I think he means “iOS supported”.

Because Apple doesn’t support Windows nor Android

You seem to have confused iOS devices with Macs.

Macs can run another OS by design.


Sure but I presume you aren’t running a platform like Apple’s.

If iOS was properly supported on Linux, I'd use one.

But it's not.


So far, only iOS can run on iDevices, which means if you want to use Apple hardware you have to use iOS.

Apple/iOS has 100% on their platform. Noone stopped you back then from buying an Apple PC, installing Linux or BSD etc. either. Noone stopped you from installing an alternative browser on either Windows or Android, yet they got slapped for it.

I do mean specifically iOS because Mac OS doesn’t have the same restriction

Because iOS only runs on Apple devices, that’s my interpretation.

It would be a potentially smart move by Apple to allow installing other OSs in iOS hardware. The market share grab part of this segment is mostly gone so they probably wouldn't lose much and it would help with their arguments about the App Store and other iOS restrictions. They could say that in iOS those are the rules but if you want to do something else with the device you own you can install something else. It might even win them some customers. They would win my business if I could install an open-source OS under my control on a phone like I do on my laptop. LineageOS is not even close unfortunately because of poor hardware support.

Interesting. For me, a device being iOS based is a non-starter, I just can't handle the limitations of the operating system.

iOS only runs on Apple devices, same for macOS. This is not the case for Google and Microsoft.

Very limited support for third party software? The only device running a variant of iOS that doesn’t have third party software are the displays.

Because iOS is just a an OS that runs on a very limited number of tablets because of a decision by iOS's owners. There's absolutely no reason that iOS couldn't be just another tablet OS.

If you don’t have an iOS app then I don’t see how you can say “all operating systems” with a straight face.

OK, well iOS doesn't adhere to the standard, which means most of the US mobile device market does not support it.

iOS can only run on Apple hardware.

Google famously made Android "open source" and allows third party manufacturers to run it.

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