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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
For me, open is that I can install any program I'd like to install. And be able to create my own programs and distribute them as I'd see fit. Which means, in my book, almost all is open (don't know Android, at all, so I don't take that into account), and Apple is as closed as closed can be. And Microsoft is open. Naturally, this only goes about OS's. Not applications themselves.
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So the issue is about distribution. So why are you misleadingly including to "be able to create your own programs"? You can create your own programs in iOS you just can't serve them to a large mobile crowd on your own because nothing but yourself guarantees these people's security and the integrity of their data, and apple very rightly so won't let you be the arbitrator of that. You always have ms of course where spyware, malware, and viruses are let to their own devices to wreak havoc on systems. But they too won't go that route in highly vulnerable mobile environment, and they'll use an app store.
You can also choose the "open" route of microsoft and make close to nothing from your software from people stealing, torrenting, cracking it, or you can go to apples "closed" route where hundreds of thousands of developers are making money with a willing and able public paying them.
But it seems if you are developer you've already made a bad choice of not developing for apple and hence the bitterness and all that pointless talk about open or closed.