It wasn't long ago that we used to buy devices for.org homes or offices that came basically as blank slates. Just.the basic template to put our OS on, No matter our preference. If you liked windows, that is what you would use. Prefer Linux? You had several choices. Or more interesting choices like like Mac or IBM, those were available too.
Now though, we have our powerful phones and fancy tablets that come with built in operating systems that we may or may not like. We could get our hands dirty, void our warranties, and mod our devices with something in an all too complicated, for some, manner. Hopefully not irreversibly bricking our device in the process.
Why haven't Microsoft and Google convinced manufacturers to make devices that the users can choose the OS? I personally have an awesome phone in with the Motorola Droid Bionic but I would like to give windows phone 8 a try. I do not want to have to buy a less powerful phone to do it. And why can't any phone be a nexus device that receives its OS updates directly from Google?
This is my plea to phone manufacturers. Free our phones from the oppressive draconian hold of the carriers and their backward thoughts of feature phone OS.
