Imagine if you could...

By JTaylor69
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JTaylor69

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Today when choosing a mobile phone you often fall in love with the design of the hardware, but what about the OS that powers it?

Love the design of the phone but hate that OS that is powering it?

Imagine if you could have the choice of OS from the start!

What if you could have a SD card inside the box containing each OS with the user's option of to have either iOS, Android or Windows Phone? (Or via the manufacturer's software and USB?)

Then at your will change it to another OS at any time?

What's your thoughts?

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Yes, I'd welcome it. Phones, formerly devices with a very specific purpose, and their unholy tablet-spawn have and will continue increasingly to try and become like PC, except they're not offering a fraction of the freedom any desktop/laptop PC, as an inherently universal device, is meant to and does provide. To me, phones and tablets are wanna-be gadgets and I think they will stay that way, too.

Because manufacturers will never allow that freedom to happen. It would be highly inconvenient and expensive, requiring much more extensive testing (which, I might add, they can't be arsed to do half-properly as it is), extensive driver and software support. With little to no gain in return, of course.

More worryingly, we're actually actively moving in the opposite direction - we'll be having Windows 8, a formerly PC-exclusive operating system, for tablets - most probably a locked-down kind of hardware. It is the matter of time before laptops (many already well on their way in terms of locked-down hardware, BIOS and OS choices) and desktops will (not die) but amalgamate with gadgets. And then - welcome to the out-of-control era.

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