Is Apple’s Tight Control A Recipe for Eventual Failure?
The mobile handset software market has become the battleground for another clash between those who favour tightly controlled platforms and those who believe in open platforms that can be freely-adapted and modified. Apple's iPhone OS is obviously the exemplar of the control model, while Linux-based systems, such as Android and LiMo, are typically associated with the nebulous quality of openness, which like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.Even though the iPhone OS is widely regarded a