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Sorry, but even Apple, who develops its own operating system, didn't develop it own system from scratch(1). The iOS platform is an adaption of this as well, mea
by signalsignal 14y ago
Sorry, but even Apple, who develops its own operating system, didn't develop it own system from scratch(1). The iOS platform is an adaption of this as well, meaning it is not a unique system.
One of the challenges of creating a startup is building a business which not only provides solutions/products to customers, but also works with other businesses. Attempting to cripple competitors platforms will quickly and easily be interpreted as monopolistic behavior(2).
1) Originally Mach 3 to Xnu and GNU and *BSD system utilities with only a proprietary layer on top, Quartz.
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
- jiggy2011 14y agoFacebook has enough scale now to mean that other companies have to work around them rather than the other way around. Whether they develop their own system from scratch or not is largely irrelevant , especially if they use BSD licensed code. You would really be relying on a court finding them to be a monopoly which might be difficult to do if it was implemented in a subtle enough way.
- signalsignal 14y ago> ... then restrict access of other smartphones to it's platforms and APIs (so that they become a crippled shell) while adding features that were exclusive to the FB phone. Nothing subtle about that.