Re: And of course, "no details."
Will it really break the monopoly all that much? I know Huawei's a big company and they could put a lot of money into it, but we've seen this before:
Microsoft is a big company and put a lot of development into Windows Phone including hardware. Other manufacturers bought in and made hardware as well. We don't have Windows Phone now.
Samsung is a big company and and put a lot of development into Tizen. The Linux foundation supported it and it was open for other companies to get on board, and several companies did. Samsung's fitness watches run on a thing sort of related to Tizen, but their phone experiment was a failure and the platform died.
Ubuntu's various developers form a big community with a lot of money and and put a lot of development into Ubuntu Touch. Several companies claimed to be interested in building hardware, and a few did. We don't have Ubuntu Touch anymore.
Mozilla has a lot of available resources and put a lot of development into Firefox OS. Several companies saw this as a method to get away from the Android trap and built hardware for it. Firefox OS has died and the lone surviving remnant is a cut-down version that runs on feature phones.
So I'm not expecting miracles here.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
