No-Evil Zone

[unixronin]

Tim Bray (formerly of Sun Microsystems) on why Android is good and the iPhone is bad.

Money quotes:

• I’d had an offer to stay with Oracle which I decided to decline; I’ll maybe tell the story when I can think about it without getting that weird spiking-blood-pressure sensation in my eyeballs.

• Android [...] seems to me as unambiguously a good thing as the tangled wrinkly human texture of the Net can sustain just now.

• The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet's future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what.  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.

(Incidentally, he doesn't think much of Flash either.  Which makes him very far from alone.)

Comments

[ithildae]

Some of the many reasons that I stopped wanting an iPad. It felt like the only purpose for the device was to generate revenue with iTunes. I want to do something different.