Tag Archives: Open source

Android Apps: From Open Market to Flee Market

By Kfir Pravda | Published: July 12, 2010
Image by osde8info via Flickr Google released their Android app inventor, an intuitive development tool for non developers, that enables anyone to develop and publish an android app. Open ecosystem followers rejoice! Well, sorry, but it seems that instead of improving Android’s ecosystem, this latest move will only harm it. You see, Android is becoming [...]
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The Myth of Openness- Response to O’Reilly

By Kfir Pravda | Published: April 18, 2010
Image by . SantiMB . via Flickr Apple is continuously  under fire for lack of openness. Once the industry’s underdog, as it’s market power grows, Apple slowly becoming the target of many attacks, the latest one from Tim O’Reilly. Interestingly enough, Apple never claimed to be open. Or nice. Apple claimed one thing only – [...]
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