> That's like saying "developing for iOS||Android||Windows Phone||Symbian is supporting a walled garden!" How is it not though? One of the defining features of

> That's like saying "developing for iOS||Android||Windows Phone||Symbian is supporting a walled garden!" How is it not though? One of the defining features of each mobile platform is its rich third party app ecosystem. iOS was the mobile platform for a good period of time because the apps only it had. Therefore, those third party developers did in fact support the walled garden, you could even go as far to say that without these developers, the walled garden never would have been what it is today.