That's because they let carriers get involved. Apple (mostly) wasn't stupid like that.
Neither carrier nor hw vendor should be able to do anything to the OS, & same OS should work on all hw models.
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Neither carrier nor hw vendor should be able to do anything to the OS, & same OS should work on all hw models.