We need to break the mobile duopoly. We need a 3rd mobile OS

[Kent Sharkey]

Andreesen Horowitz[^]:

We already know that there are two dominant mobile operating systems out there. But the current situation doesn’t really allow anyone to experiment, not without going through the interests and lenses of the two dominant players — Apple and Google.

Somewhere in Redmond, a Product Manager is crying

[Lost User]

Probably a few guys in Finland too :java:

How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

[AndersonChau]

WP8, Ubuntu mobile , Meego-Bada-Tizen , BlackBerry OS , Firefox OS....

[Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter]

I think we have a debate over what mobile OS is...Or just Mr. Horowitz missed the counting at a very early stage...

Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

[PIEBALDconsult]

I conceed that OpenVMS is not a very mobile OS.