[jrl]

Yes, it's worse than Microsoft's dominance of PCs in the 1990s. Back then, at least you could install whatever software you wanted in your machine. Now it's completely locked down in the iPhone and Windows Phone. What happened to the hacker culture that defended users' and programmers' rights? We should be making more noise about this problem.

[gte910h]

People have installed linux on iPhones. They just need to keep pushing that branch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yO2KQHkt4A

But no, they go off and make their own OS instead of pushing the free one that's there.