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ELI5 Why aren't phones like laptops when installing operating systems ?

I mean you can get any random laptop install windows or linux on it and it just works but for phones you have to get custom roms specific for your phone.
Aren't phones essentially same as computers ?
gpt
Technically this utopia is totally possible. This problem is basically a manufactured one. Apple won't let you do anything cos it wants the absolute control over your devices and the OS on them. Within android things are a little more open, you might be able to install some other flavor of android if you could get your phone's bootloader unlocked, but you'll have to jump through hoops. Basically everyone wants to lock you in, to some extent.