Posted 30 October 2012 - 11:07 AM
Okay two things:
1. Haf, the purpose of the iOS and Android platforms is to get other people to make crap for them, and to make stuff that people want, allowing those companies to look like they have a bigger consumer base, so that more companies will pay them to incorporate their stuff into the OS (or as in iOS's case, to put it on the market). Thus, the more people the OS has, the more useful and attractive it becomes, and the more successful it becomes.
2. Jor, I'm going to have to take the ridiculous road here, and say that Google *are* the good guys, because they believe in innovation. They are solidly confident that they can do anything they like better than anyone else, but importantly, if people decide otherwise, they can totally use their products to find their competitors products. They are fair, and they are friendly. This incredibly cunning manouver, to play the good guys, has made them the most powerful company on the planet. Just because their motivations aren't white knight, does not mean that they can be discounted as a shady, evil corporation. They are a responsible corp. Possibly the benchmark for fairness in the corporate world.
And another thing, you can't go using Microsoft's old methods as a damnation for their new ones. They are also playing by the good guy book, whereas before, they played the bad guy, and apple played the good guy. Microsoft was forever changed following the antitrust lawsuits laid against it, and it's management is totally different nowadays. They solve their patent problems en masse by compromise.
Hopefully, everyone eventually learns that being friends with your consumers is what gets you the market share, not violently lashing out and attempting to shove your dick in the people's collective face.
Oracle isn't likely to change, they're simply too big, and too powerful. However, if enough people drop apple for Windows or Android, maybe, just maybe, Apple will get the message, and chill the fuck out.