« Reply #200 on: Mon, 03 May 2010, 09:01:26 »
The thing is, game consoles are a market where you expect a walled garden. (That said, there's XNA on the Xbox 360, and there was Other OS on the PS3, and Linux for the PS2.) Smartphones, OTOH, weren't a walled garden before the iPhone came out.
So then there's Android, which has its own app store for now, but if they can't break Apple's hold on the Apps market, what will they do? Keep trying to be Apple even harder? No, they'll put their bets down that the only way forward is to not be Apple and offer everyone disgrunted by Apple an alternative.
Or maybe they'll succeed with a walled garden and then what does Microsoft do with Windows Mobile or HP do with their acquisition of Palm? One of these guys is certainly going to take the path of least resistance.
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