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but the same technically applies to iOS because its underlying OS is Darwin, which is FOSS.
No, Darwin is like Linux, the kernel. You cannot say a kernel is an operating system. In android, the operating system itself (AOSP) is FOSS, and the equivalent in iOS is not FOSS.
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Darwin isn't the kernel though. It's the XNU kernel plus some cribbed BSD code, a network stack, an Apple's API I/O drivers. It's more of a software distribution. and you *can* say the kernel is the OS because they're both generally defined the exact same way.
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if we're going by the nomenclature for a program that manages memory, schedules tasks, and runs other programs, the "operating system" and the "kernel" both fit this.
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