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Walled gardens aren't really about piracy. It's about capturing part of the market and preventing any competition within in. Apple and Google are leveraging the

Walled gardens aren't really about piracy. It's about capturing part of the market and preventing any competition within in. Apple and Google are leveraging their marketshare in one market to gain a huge profit in another. And it has been very successful. 30% of software, music, video, and games sales is huge. They profit more from those sales than the content creators do.

JetSpiegel 12y ago
This. Windows was much more open and created a massive parallel industry of third party software, at all levels of the stack. Apple doesn't even let Firefox port their browser. Windows had third-party C compilers.
- Logmix 12y ago
  Of course Apple also has Mac OS that is on par with Windows when it comes to not being a total walled garden. And Microsoft also has Windows RT with restrictions that makes it a walled garden just like iOS. So in the end, it all evens out between the two.