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I'm not aware of any analogous examples. Apple controls the OS, the hardware, and the application distribution channel (I do know about enterprise distribution,
by paulgb 17y ago
I'm not aware of any analogous examples. Apple controls the OS, the hardware, and the application distribution channel (I do know about enterprise distribution, but they still control that IIRC.) They've developed a reputation for not being the most friendly to developers, too. Why would you risk a business on that when there is an open source alternative with lots of hardware vendors and a huge corporate backer (Google)?
- ErrantX 17y agoGoogle as a backer is a red herring. They aren't going to be necessairily any use in fixing your problems at 5am on a Monday morning... On the other hand apple will at least answer the phone when your developer rings them.