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I wish the Hey story makes people realise that we can't depend on benevolence of two corporations and should be working on open platforms.

• noir_lord 6y ago
  Open platforms are great (and they are, I say this as a Fedora user who just finished an install via dnf'ing all the things) but they lack the money which translates to marketing that large corporations have, it's not a case of a level playing field, we are playing two different games on entirely different fields and ours is mostly uphill. When your opposition has an absolute chokehold on major markets it's a near unassailable position - throw in that the vast vast majority of users simply don't care whether an app store is open or not or know why they should care - attention is finite and the only way things will improve is if governments lead it and well see my earlier paragraph about who has the money...
  • 0-O-0 6y ago
    Apple and Google are not primordial forces. At some point they've started small and had to compete/coexist with IBM, Yahoo etc. There are still emerging markets and space for innovation. And next innovation might be based on something open, like Ubuntu Touch.