You hit the nail on the head. I think SJobs realizes that the percentage of people who actually know or care what the difference is between open and closed is very small compared to the rest of the market share he is trying to capture. So a lilttle bit of spin on any subject and the moms/pops aunts/unlces and grandparents who may be purchasing these devices for the next year or two will be hood winked by a few carefully chosen words and selective statements made to the media.
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Tim Schofield <[email protected]>wrote: > I love stuff like this, it is classic Steve Jobs, he is an absolute > genius at media manipulation and marketing. For many years he > successfully portrayed as apple as the hippy free spirits against the > suits of Microsoft and IBM. Then suddenly along comes an open source > product that competes with them, and makes them look like the suits. > > So what does he do? He "re-ignites the openness debate between iOS and > Android". Excuse me, what debate? There is no debate here, iOS is > closed source, and Android is open source, this is a fact that every > man and his dog knows :-) > > However by claiming to re-ignite a debate that never existed he is > putting into peoples minds the notion that in some way iOS and Android > are similar in their openness. They aren't. > > > How does Android get away with the “open” claim when the source isn’t > public until major releases, and no one outside Google can check in? > [...@joehewitt] > > The source tree can be cloned from the git repository that Paul > mentions, anyone can get it, and change it. BTW what does "check in" > mean in a distributed version control system? > > > Compare the Android “open source” model to Firefox or Linux if you want > to see how disingenuous that “open” claim is. [...@joehewitt] > > I love this one. Well in excess of 95%, and probably more of the > kernel that is in Android is also in the mainline kernel that is on > any Linux system, and was written using the same open source model. > Doesn't a standard Android distro come with Firefox on it as well? > > > Until Android is read/write open, it’s no different than iOS to me. Open > source means sharing control with the community, not show and tell. > [...@joehewitt] > > If Mr Hewitt wants to he can take the Android code from the GIT > repository and fork it, creating his own operating system. How open is > that? > > Tim > > -- > WebERP Africa Ltd > +447710427049 > +256752963327 > +255784602561 > www.weberpafrica.com > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > -- Sanga M. Collins Network Engineering ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Google Voice: (954) 324-1365 E- fax: (435) 578 7411
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