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I'd even go so far to say Android is an API/shell on a Linux kernel.
Just like Mac is it's own API on a Linux kernel.
There's probably a better term for this today.
Even Windows is an API on the Windows kernel. At one time there was a Posix API for Windows. Today there's both an Android Subsystem for Windows, and a Linux Subsystem for Windows. Which are little more than APIs that run on the Windows kernel (though quite a hit more involved).
Slight correction, Mac is it's own API on a POSIX-certified UNIX kernel.
Akchually... It's Unix-certified and POSIX-compliant.
I know you were making fun of me, but I appreciate the correction none the less.
POSIX has a certification as well it seems, but nobody really seems to care about it?
Sorry, that was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, not making fun of you.
Honestly, I've got thick skin; I'm perfectly fine with it. I try to be as accurate with my knowledge as possible, and if you correct me -- it causes me to look it up, correct my information, and do better next time. "Being mean" isn't a reason to downvote someone, it's just that online everyone's typically so sensitive about shit :)
And Windows is on the NT (New Technology) Kernel.
Pictured: jackdaw
Jackdaws aren’t crows
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow."
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.
So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?