Ya ya… Think of how much we here would contribute if the companies would pick up and work with the communities. For instance - imagine (name a company that spent tons on perfecting their messaging app) would offer Zemer on their devices - INSTANT HIT. Obviously, they would have guidelines and whatnot regarding the direction of development. But zemer is open source. They can fork / create a variant for their device.
Next example. Imagine (name a company that spent tons on perfecting their messaging app) would OS the code, and accept public PRs - and push those updates. Who wouldn’t buy the phone just for that?
I know they’ll be nervous that other companies are going to rip off their work - but there are two things to consider. 1) When opening the software, the devices with the best hardware are the winners. The (name a company that spent tons on perfecting their messaging app) company happens to have very decent and competitive hardware.
2) OSing creates a community of developers who stick to that brand. Someone who is married to their (name a company that spent tons on perfecting their messaging app) phone will start developing for them (for free) and adding all of their dream features… even if another company picks up some of the code, this guy is busy yakking online about his phone, promoting it, and doesn’t care at all that the competition is keeping up. You make a whole chevra of people who already like the phone somewhat start loving it.
Whatever., lemaaseh, never going to happen but would be very nice. Maybe at least one company - or one phone? pleeez?