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PCs nearly-universally use standardized interfaces, phones go hard on cost cutting and everyone ships their own badly-done drivers that are never upstreamed running on custom hardware that wouldn't run a "standard" image if you had one.

Or more succinctly, because phones won the race to the bottom.



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