The thing you are trying to speak in favor of is Apple Macintosh, with its proprietary OS long since replaced by POSIX-based and Mach-based MacOS X.

We had beautiful gaming consoles, beautiful Macintoshes, and IBM mainframes, and beautiful Burroughs and Symbolics' Lisp Machines, and the Commodore C=64s.

And yet here we are, the open ecosystem has won again, as it naturally does, based on the costs structure and information propagation.

The consoles are PCs now. The mainframe of yesteryear is now a datacenter built from souped-up PCs. The mobile phones, at first dominated by proprietary OSes, are tilting ever more towards desktop-grade OSes. And the C=64s are dead and the demoscene is delivering the eulogy.

MacOS being replaced by POSIX-based and Mach-based is an historical accident.

Had Steve Jobs been at somewhere else or Jean-Louis Gassée won his bid, and there wouldn't be a POSIX-based and Mach-based Mac OS X to talk about.

Linux is losing to MIT based OSes on embedded space, where OEM can have their cake and eat in what concerns FOSS.

If Android does get replaced by Fucshia you will see how much open source you will get effectively from mobile handsets OEMs.

>>If Android does get replaced by Fucshia you will see how much open source you will get effectively from mobile handsets OEMs.

Right now, only Apple has the knack to control OS version releases uniformly across all of its devices.

> Google itself has admitted that Android itself is a mess by lieu of the fact that they open sourced it in the first place.

Can you provide a source for this claim?