>We don’t pay for OS explicitly anymore. But look at Windows and Android… you end up paying somehow in the end anyway.
MS, you pay one time for the OS. Android you technically don't need to pay at all if you go AOSP. Both still require hardware to support the OS, though.
>And no. Paying for the phone is not a viable way to pay for the OS. That incentives the phone maker to ditch OS updates for old phones.
They do that anyway. mobile support is much lower than desktop which tends to guarantee a decade or so. And it's not like IOS is licensing out to other OEMs anyway.
In Windows you pay every time you open start menu and get blasted with tabloid news, ads and paid article placements. Or you pay in your time (again and again) turning it off each H2 update.
People say this but I just turned off a lot of that at the beginning. I generally do clean installs so I never worry about bloatware and I use Everything (void tools) to search because yes, Windows search just sucks somewhere around the middle of Windows 10.
I don't doubt the ads are there but I avoid them easily enough. Fortunately I get the option to get around that stuff, unlike Apple's environments.
MS, you pay one time for the OS. Android you technically don't need to pay at all if you go AOSP. Both still require hardware to support the OS, though.
>And no. Paying for the phone is not a viable way to pay for the OS. That incentives the phone maker to ditch OS updates for old phones.
They do that anyway. mobile support is much lower than desktop which tends to guarantee a decade or so. And it's not like IOS is licensing out to other OEMs anyway.