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What I have garnered from the whole WP 8.1 update fiasco.

It would be nice if we had the freedom to install operating systems on our phone as we wished.

For example: I can install a Windows Operating System or a Linux operating system on my desktop/laptop computer because for all intents and purposes the program uses the same architecture. I shouldn't be trapped into one ecosystem. If I wanted to go back to Windows Phone 7, for some odd reason, I should not be hindered from doing so. You know there is always that possibility someone would want to load up a Windows 95 on their new desktop, maybe for nostalgia, who knows. I know drivers would have to be written for new operating systems, but that hasn't stopped computer manufactures from doing so thus far, although there was that hiccup with 64 bit drivers.

Smartphones have gotten to a point that they are not their old Symbian Operating Systems. I can't remember ever carrying if my Symbian system was updated. Just as you can install Windows XP on a computer running Windows 95, people expect the same or similar ability from our smartphones. Even if our phones had a virtual machine to boot OSs due to hardware conflicts, such a system would be in a better direction than the current system. There is way to much red tape in the mix currently. I don't have all the answers, but the industry ought to be coming up with better ideas and solutions.

Let Verizon just provide the service like cable companies provide a television signal or an internet service, or like a utility provides power or water.

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Its called Apple :smileyhappy:

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Let Verizon just provide the service like cable companies provide a television signal or an internet service, or like a utility provides power or water.

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Totally agree. But then Verizon would be under regulatory authority not just in the states but Federal Government as well.

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I am ok with them being under regulatory authority.

Apple is not doing what I would like done. I want the ability to use Apple, Windows Phone, Android, Firefox OS, Ubuntu, and any other OS on my phone. Well not a desktop OS but you get the idea. We should get the ability to choose the OS we like just as I can do on a Windows computer. If I don't like what Microsoft is putting out I can try my had at the various Linux distros. Apple has been using intel chips in their computers for a while now so it can all be done. The hardware should have standards that all phones go by. That way people can choose their phone and their OS. This would also mean that Apple and Microsoft would have to allow people to ability to put other operating systems on their hardware since they are both in the hardware manufacturing business. I rather software and hardware manufactures be separate though.

Obviously we would still have the big three operating systems. Android, iOS, and Windows.

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I know you can root phones but this kind of development is slow for obvious reasons. There is not enough man power with the knowledge of how to do such things and people have to eat so they have to get paid. So taking from the structure that Microsoft has set in the desktop environment, where we buy the operating system for our Mobile phones, is a better solution. We get the service packs as a part of the maintenance of the operating system.

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vzwenduser wrote:

I know you can root phones but this kind of development is slow for obvious reasons. There is not enough man power with the knowledge of how to do such things and people have to eat so they have to get paid. So taking from the structure that Microsoft has set in the desktop environment, where we buy the operating system for our Mobile phones, is a better solution. We get the service packs as a part of the maintenance of the operating system.

Apple tried that model. It was met with great resistance. I don't see it ever going that way.

Apple tried with their iPod to see if people would pay for updates. They charged $10 if you wanted to update your iPod. That was the last time they tried as well... Their user base has spoken.

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