<story><title>The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone (2013)</title><url>http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Matt3o12_</author><text>Is there any working being done to modernize those protocols? I&amp;#x27;m sure Apple can demand that by a given timeframe, a new standard has to be supported or else new iphone won&amp;#x27;t work on the carrier&amp;#x27;s network (and which carrier would not want iphones to work on their network?). It&amp;#x27;s not like Apple is afraid of such things. I&amp;#x27;m sure if apple implemented them, google&amp;#x2F;samsung would follow within 1 or 2 years.&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, is there a refactor&amp;#x2F;rewrite of that &amp;#x27;90 code bash that is full of bugs and unused functions? And if so, do any phone manufactures use that improve &amp;quot;firmware&amp;quot;?</text></comment>
<story><title>The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone (2013)</title><url>http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>helb</author><text>The author posted it to HN after publication (in 2013), it got 262 comments: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=6722292&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=6722292&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>