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The controlled experience is what makes this all work, IMO. Without it, you'd have a mess. The option to install non-market apps has yet to turn Android device
by orangecat 17y ago
The controlled experience is what makes this all work, IMO. Without it, you'd have a mess.
The option to install non-market apps has yet to turn Android devices into cesspools of malware. Having the app store be the default source is fine. Forcibly prohibiting other sources is purely to make sure Apple gets a cut of everything and can prevent any threats to their business model from materializing. Good for them, bad for everyone else. As I've said before, if Microsoft had that kind of power 20 years ago the web wouldn't exist today.
- theBobMcCormick 17y agoAgreed. Not to say there aren't a lot of crap apps in the Android Market, but the same situation seems to exist in the Apple App store as well (iFart anyone?).
- danudey 17y agoTrue, but the fragmentation and lack of a vetting authority has turned it into a morass of poorly-tested, ill-supported apps that rely on assumptions made by their authors based on what few handsets they had available to test (if more than one). I don't like the way Apple's treated the app store in some cases, but the fact is that the apps that do make it through the gauntlet are better tested and more robust because of it.
- BigZaphod 17y agoif Microsoft had that kind of power 20 years ago the web wouldn't exist today I'd love to say "prove it," but of course that is impossible. :) It is wise to be skeptical of Apple (or any company), but don't let that blind you to the innovation that's happening right under your nose.
- wmf 17y agoWasn't Microsoft's official strategy at some point (1993?) to replace the Internet with MSN/Blackbird? (This sounds silly now, but AOL and Prodigy were trying the same thing at the time.) If MS could have blocked Netscape from running on Windows they might have never developed IE (or let it wither as a second-class citizen).