[_pmf_]

> I'm really unclear about why this is exciting to people... it seems like an iPhone that runs android.

That's exciting to me. There are some people who highly value Apple's HW engineering but don't want to deal with the closed ecosystem.

[pjmlp]

Except iPhone has 5 years updates.

[candiodari]

And since when is android an open ecosystem ? Ever since iPhones and iPads started supporting sideloading [1] there is zero difference.

http://osxdaily.com/2016/01/12/howto-sideload-apps-iphone-ip...