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I didn't know about Ubuntu Touch. Thanks.
It's so frustrating how hard it is to get hardware working. I'm sad it's not further along, but actually super impressed by the people who keep working on it.
When I was like 10 I wondered why hardware didn’t just have some flash chip with its driver source code written in a standardized way. The idea sounds corny in retrospect, but honestly why isn’t it a thing?
Because there is no such thing as a universal standard for software.
You're imagining a way for software to talk to each other with something like Esperanto, right? Some universal library interface, a language that can be compiled for every CPU architecture, byte ordering, and operating system.
This would require all hardware vendors to agree on what that interface is, for each type of device. It would require that the API never changes, or else old devices wouldn't work with new OSes; the alternative is that OSes have to support years of different versions of the language. It would prevent bug fixes, unless you add the ability to flash individual chips, which would make many more expensive. It would have to be a higher level interface which would limit both innovation and performance tuning. But the biggest issue is that this universal language would have to understand every operating system to know how to access itself using the OS's paradigm.
Oh believe me, I know all those issues exist. The idea would simply never happen.