Comments on: Apple is top of mind for execs at MWC

The iPhone maker isn't here in Spain at Mobile World Congress, but top executives have a lot to say about the company's "closed" strategy in the mobile market.

[mayadanteamihan]

Gotta be kidding. They want Apple to open up because they can't defeat it as it is now.

[theotherstevejobs]

"Kallasvu agreed. And he used Apple and its "closed" ecosystem as an example of what could limit innovation in the mobile market in the future."

Yes, prior to the iPhone progress was zipping along rapidly, but now it?s stuck because the iPhone is closed. - John Gruber

[krischan68]

I understand: The mobile world could be such a better place (innovation! openness! interoperability!) if Apple hadn't come up with this sinister plot to impose a clunky, uninnovative and closed gadget upon mindless customers with brute force, SJ's witchcraft and clever marketing.

Otherwise they couldn't have resisted the beauty of the Symbian or WinMo OS and their phones.
There. can. be. no. other. explanation.

Whining jerks.

[diggitz]

Wow, the author of the article didn't even bother to mention that Apple's Mac OS and variants are all based in Darwin, which is completely open source, and based on BSD, which is also open source. It's not a far jump to port between Linux and BSD for many applications, so similarity of platforms across all markets *except* Windows-based devices really makes porting apps less than daunting. Apple doesn't make much of the software you can run on their devices, at all. It's really up to app-making software developers to decide which platforms they're going to port between, and up to the hardware market to respond to that, IMO.

[rwgs811]

Everyone here seems to be missing the big point of this. No one has a clue about the big issue here.

Apple let you develop apps for the iPhone, but not to the detriment of their existing apps (or ones they may make in the future - a good examples is the Podcast app form a while back that was denied cos Apple were making one, or how about the fact they won't let apps that allow you to use the iPhone has a modem).

Microsoft don't stop people creating competing office software or web browsers for windows, so why is Apple allowed to do the same for the iPhone.