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by pjmlp 69 days ago
Just like everything else outside PC thanks to clones becoming a thing.

One reason UNIX became widely adopted, besides being freely available versus the other OSes, was that allowed companies to abstract their hardware differences, offering some market differentiation, while keeping some common ground.

Those phones common ground is called Android with Java/Kotlin/C/C++ userspace, folks should stop seeing them as GNU/Linux.