← Back to context Comment by gibwell 11 years ago Saying 'iOS is more closed' doesn't make Android meaningfully open. 6 comments gibwell Reply icebraining 11 years ago What about the fact that competitors are using the OS without so much as asking Google? cremnob 11 years ago Then why make a free "open" OS in the first place? If it was such a concern that Google should control the OS they could have done what Microsoft did with licensing Windows, or like Apple where they keep iOS to themselves for their own hardware. hahainternet 11 years ago The fact that I can download and build Android is what makes it meaningfully open. nailer 11 years ago Can you sent me a link to the current HEAD? gibwell 11 years ago You can't download and build what consumers think of as Android. myko 11 years ago Right. Being able to fork the OS and release devices like the Kindle Fire do make Android meangingfully open.Saying 'iOS is more closed' is just obvious.
icebraining 11 years ago What about the fact that competitors are using the OS without so much as asking Google? cremnob 11 years ago Then why make a free "open" OS in the first place? If it was such a concern that Google should control the OS they could have done what Microsoft did with licensing Windows, or like Apple where they keep iOS to themselves for their own hardware.
cremnob 11 years ago Then why make a free "open" OS in the first place? If it was such a concern that Google should control the OS they could have done what Microsoft did with licensing Windows, or like Apple where they keep iOS to themselves for their own hardware.
hahainternet 11 years ago The fact that I can download and build Android is what makes it meaningfully open. nailer 11 years ago Can you sent me a link to the current HEAD? gibwell 11 years ago You can't download and build what consumers think of as Android.
myko 11 years ago Right. Being able to fork the OS and release devices like the Kindle Fire do make Android meangingfully open.Saying 'iOS is more closed' is just obvious.
What about the fact that competitors are using the OS without so much as asking Google?
Then why make a free "open" OS in the first place? If it was such a concern that Google should control the OS they could have done what Microsoft did with licensing Windows, or like Apple where they keep iOS to themselves for their own hardware.
The fact that I can download and build Android is what makes it meaningfully open.
Can you sent me a link to the current HEAD?
You can't download and build what consumers think of as Android.
Right. Being able to fork the OS and release devices like the Kindle Fire do make Android meangingfully open.
Saying 'iOS is more closed' is just obvious.