It's pretty obvious, it's costly to make one that is up to the level of quality of commercial ones. It's not a mistake that the 2 mobile oses are owned and created by some of the largest and most profitable companies in the world.

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shermantanktop 2 days ago | parent [-]

It’s costly, but those two companies also operate in a hierarchical manner (like the military or a feudal kingdom) which makes decision-making and accountability much easier. The FOSS world has been rife with petty agree-or-fork squabbles, often over relatively abstract philosophical concerns about license language.

	▲	PeterStuer 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Look inside the kitchen of Microsoft or Google. It is comparable to all the FOSS world petty squables and pfiefdom wars. You can even see this into the abominal products they release, rife with frankesteinian cobbled together bits and pieces from different 'orgs' trying to grab a piece of the (tr)action and the wild inconsistencies in the UX.
	▲	wolvesechoes 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> The FOSS world has been rife with petty agree-or-fork squabbles, often over relatively abstract philosophical concerns about license language. You cannot say that. This means we have thousand half-baked projects to choose from, and choice is good. At least this is what I was told.