Open source is different in that anyone peeved about some missing or unfriendly feature can implement it. You do not need to become an official committer; just put your patch on the mailing list and it is likely to be picked up and integrated.

Open source is different in that people generally strive to build the best software they can; there is no management saying "This is good enough; we're not going to bother with feature/problem X", or worse, as in this case, "there is no problem X".

But in the end, the users pay for the phones. If they don't buy the phones, no money for carrier and manufacturer.

Case in point: The Motorola Droid (Android 2.0) has multitouch in Europe (where it is called Milestone), but apparently not in the US.

Correct. But your preceding sentence that both theories require blind faith does not follow.

All the objective, measurable, factual evidence we have points to the second alternative. Unfortunately, we have no evidence yet showing why the universe did what it appears to have done. As soon as we obtain such evidence, it will be integrated into science's world view.

Replacing the current gap in our knowledge with mythical mumbo-jumbo ("God/Brahma/The Flying Spaghetti Monster did it") does no good (a principle called Occam's Razor), especially when people forget that it is a stop-gap and promote it as The Truth Not To Be Questioned.

So science means believing in what you see and not spewing unfounded tales about things that you cannot see (yet).