Can Any Smartphone Platform Overcome the Android/iOS Duopoly?

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 31, 2013 @08:10AM from the rumbles-from-redmond dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes "The company formerly known as Research In Motion—which decided to cut right to the proverbial chase and rename itself 'BlackBerry'—launched its much-anticipated BlackBerry 10 operating system at a high-profile event in New York City Jan. 30. Meanwhile, Microsoft is still dumping tons of money and effort into Windows Phone. But can either smartphone OS — or another player, for that matter — successfully challenge Apple iOS and Google Android, which one research firm estimated as running on 92 percent of smartphones shipped in the fourth quarter of 2012? What would it take for any company to launch that sort of successful effort?"

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Re:Does it matter ... by neiras · 2013-01-31 08:35 · Score: 5, Informative

Does it matter if we are legally prohibited from unlocking our phones to make any modifications to the software or firmware?
You are not legally prohibited from making modifications to software or firmware.
The recent law that prohibits unlocking refers only to the unlocking process that allows you to use any SIM card you want in your phone.
You are still free to jailbreak or root your devices, install the operating system of your choice, etc. None of that has anything to do with unlocking your phone.