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Both you and bad_user are completely missing the point. The idea is that "openness" is not a universal. The statement 'X is more open than Y' does not hold unle

Both you and bad_user are completely missing the point. The idea is that "openness" is not a universal. The statement 'X is more open than Y' does not hold unless you define open. I agree that your definition of open does indeed categorize Android as more 'open' than some competitors. However, the notion that you can simply say that Android is more open than the iPhone, universally, is simply untrue. I'm attempting to promote a semblance of formal statement here, wherein the parties actually state their axioms as opposed to making otherwise semantically meaningless statements like 'Android is more open than iPhone'.

davidw 16y ago
Come on. Axioms? Formal statements? It's pretty simple: Where can I download the source code for the iPhone's UI? Does iPhone have anything like Android's intents that allows me to plug my own stuff in? Can I install my own applications on my own damn phone without paying Apple? There may be some metric where iPhone is more open than Android, but I can't think of it. There are plenty of nice things to be said about the iPhone: it really changed the phone game, it's beautiful, well designed, and so on. But 'open' and 'free' aren't really words I'd associate with it.