Open Sesame: Mobile OS Comparisons

Since the recent announcement of the Symbian Foundation, I've been thinking that maybe there are too many open operating systems out there, which begs the question: is open source really open? The answer depends on the platform. Here's a comparison of just how "open" they are.

Android - Google's smartphone OS is probably about as open as you can get. It's designed to run on almost any hardware and includes a fully open and free UI complete with source code. It costs nothing for carriers to use and if, if used in its official form, simply brings Google apps and content to the fore at opportune times.

You can see that Symbian enjoys a significant chunk of the market share, but granted that the article is predicting its eventual demise, we might see that change when a newer report is published. It would be interesting to see the difference between Windows Mobile and iPhone OSX.

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