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I'm not sure I see why this would be hard. I'd say the law could look something like this... "Companies who create computing environments that are not open to

I'm not sure I see why this would be hard. I'd say the law could look something like this... "Companies who create computing environments that are not open to all applications must clearly define the acceptance criteria for developers wishing to create applications for those environments" I guess there will always be some ambiguity (What's "clearly " for example) but anything is an improvement over what we have now.

danek 17y ago
How about a criteria that says "we will not accept applications that are crap or that make us look bad or dilute the pool of good applications"? Because this seems like it's what Apple is doing. Now whether they are doing their filtering well is a different matter. I don't see why government needs to be brought into this. Do we really need a "computing platform fairness czar"?