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Agreed. The argument is a straw man.

Even taking the (flawed) premise at face value, there is still a mile of difference between Apple's walled garden for apps and other content, versus the Android ecosystem.




It's my impression that Google itself made Android's openness part of their marketing pitch. Then of course there's Andy Rubin's famous tweet:

https://twitter.com/Arubin/status/27808662429

If they're going to make openness an issue, it seems like it's fair to criticize them if they fail to live up to their (implied?) promises.


You're playing on two different meanings of the term "open". Because Android might not qualify as OSS, they create the implication that it's just as tightly controlled as Apple's walled garden. But that's not even close to true.

The point of the OP's argument seems to be something like "Apple isn't open, and now this proves that Android isn't open either; hence, Apple and Android are the same in this respect". This argument is fallacious.




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