The Steve Jobs line of compromise
I found Steve Job’s rant about Google Android yesterday very interesting, because it highlights something fundamental about Apple: Steve Jobs believes that closed platforms are the price you pay for integration. I’ll call this the Steve Jobs line of compromise:
Apple believes that it can defend its position as essentially a closed-source shop, because there is a deep-seated belief in the company that this is the only way to achieve great user experience. If you build on open source as Google have done with Android, the platform risks fragmentation.
QUESTION: is it possible to build highly integrated platforms on open source models?
