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Should Apple Open Source the iPhone?

Posted by timothy on from the would-sure-to-have-to-have-all-that-money dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Given the OpeniBoot project is just a breath away from getting Android onto the iPhone, maybe Apple should consider opening up the platform. This post has five reasons, but I think there are far more. Without open source, Apple will find itself in the same position as today's Microsoft in seven years."

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  1. Why the Bleep should they? by nweaver · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A huge part of the reason why people buy the iPhone is the unified user experience. Yes, I'd like a platform that I don't have to pay $100 to develop on...

    But my mother doesn't care. she wants a smartphone that "Just Works": its easy to use, with lots of apps.

    Apple has provided a great unified user experience on the iPhone, and thats the secret. Its a smartphone my MOTHER can use.

    Opening up the platform wouldn't help.
       

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  2. They did... by tjstork · · Score: 5, Interesting

    one would think apple would have learned from their past mistake of a less closed platform overtaking them and nearly sending the company down the drain

    Apple went down the drain more from the clones. Look, Apple's whole thing is about the entire consumer experience from store to computer hardware to boot. It always has been and hopefully always will be. To say that Apple should just be like Microsoft, is kinda crazy. Apple doesn't have the money to compete with Microsoft or Dell and so the real brand differentiator is that they have an entirely different business model.

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