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It's my impression that Google itself made Android's openness part of their marketing pitch. Then of course there's Andy Rubin's famous tweet: https://twitter.
by jad 16y ago
It's my impression that Google itself made Android's openness part of their marketing pitch. Then of course there's Andy Rubin's famous tweet:
https://twitter.com/Arubin/status/27808662429 https://twitter.com/Arubin/status/27808662429
If they're going to make openness an issue, it seems like it's fair to criticize them if they fail to live up to their (implied?) promises.
- CWuestefeld 16y agoYou're playing on two different meanings of the term "open". Because Android might not qualify as OSS, they create the implication that it's just as tightly controlled as Apple's walled garden. But that's not even close to true. The point of the OP's argument seems to be something like "Apple isn't open, and now this proves that Android isn't open either; hence, Apple and Android are the same in this respect". This argument is fallacious.