captaincharisma :
"You want to brag about a "real operating system'"? Stop talking about phones. It's laughable."
so you're saying Linux is not a "real" OS? i am just asking since the majority of phone OS'es are built around.
Oh please... By that reasoning, the XBOX One has a "real" operating system since it is built around a Windows kernel. I suppose you consider it to have more of a "real" OS on par with full Windows, major Linux distros, and OSX, as far as functionality goes? The line of reasoning you seem to be putting forward is "the software is based on an X kernel, with X being a full blown OS, therefore the software is a full blown OS." This reasoning is patently ridiculous, as it's clear neither the XBOX One OS nor Android have nearly the functionality of the traditional "full blown" OS's, but said reasoning would put them all on the same level.
On a scale of overall functionality, let's say that IOS is a 2 or a 3. Android would be, comparatively, between a 3 and a 4. Windows/OSX/major Linux distros would likely be somewhere between 8's and 10's. Debate the numbers, but when you're talking about "fully functional OS's," Android and iOS are *both* several leagues behind proper OS's, which is precisely what I was getting at. "My crippled glorified app launcher is better than your crippled glorified app launcher - it's a REAL operating system!" No it's not... It's just a slightly less crippled glorified app launcher and it can hobble along beside iOS, Windows phone, firefox OX, and whatever Blackberry is doing, in envy of what a real OS can do. I just find it ridiculous to see some phone fanboy trying to contrast one crippled phone OS against another as a "real OS"...
"Built around a kernel" does not equal "the same level of functionality as the OS of the kernel." To pretend otherwise is just disingenuous.