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XML Co-Founder Joins Google, Blasts iPhone

Posted by kdawson on from the sinners-in-the-hands-of-an-angry-apple dept.

XML co-founder Tim Bray has taken the job of 'Developer Advocate' at Google. Don't other companies call that position 'Evangelist?' Because he sure doesn't mince words against the iPhone in his first sermon: 'It's a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord's pleasure and fear his anger.

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  1. Re:To be fair by Hadlock · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think you're right. Let's wait and see if I get up or down modded(!)

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  2. Re:XML vs iPhone by Sulphur · · Score: 0, Redundant

    iFighter jet catches celebrity pizza school delivery vehicle with new XML specialty pie.

  3. Re:To be fair by MrNiCeGUi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If your most recent example is from 1992, as in only a short while before it will be allowed to drink, I'll say that Microsoft has really mended its ways. Don't tell me to google a more recent case. Please, show me an example where Firefox or Mozilla wasn't allowed to run on windows. Or a Windows Phone sync interface modified to block third party apps. Or WMP deliberately breaking syncing to a third party media player. Or say, Office for Mac installing IE for Mac behind your back to boost IE's market share (I know there's no current IE for Mac, but you know to what I'm referring to).