The amusing thing is how much flack Apple received early on for their closed product approach.
It's arguable that Google traded heavily on the relative freedom of the Android platform, and sucked in a lot of early adopter / tinkerer types on the promise of openness. Kind of ironic that for most people, most of the time, the open source nature of Android is now barely a historical footnote.
It's arguable that Google traded heavily on the relative freedom of the Android platform, and sucked in a lot of early adopter / tinkerer types on the promise of openness. Kind of ironic that for most people, most of the time, the open source nature of Android is now barely a historical footnote.