It is open source but is it open?
Android isn’t heavely influenced by Google? Would it be any different if Steam became bigger?
How is closing the market upfront any better?
About the investment part, are you saying that one of your current main target operating system will became obsolete in favour of a new platform that you don’t support yet and you would have to invest a lot of money in order to support that too?
Cause I would get it if that’s the case.
Nobody is forcing you to install windows on a PC! (btw what about if I want to install IOS on a PC?)
There is a difference between a default option and not being able to install any other alternative.
I can’t really undestand why is totally accepted to bash an operating system instead of just contribute to an alternative. Especially now that they are adding massive contribution to the open source world and all their framework are going multiplatform too.
It’s like Internet Explorer, europe made them remove it as the default option in windows 8 (which was a correct choice) but they didn’t say anything about the mobile world. I still cannot remove safari from my Iphone bar!
There never been any problems for YEARS with Microsoft and they always been the worst as for closed system. Then apple came by and not a word. Google monopolized android and it was ok.
Now that it is affecting your own business you are suddenly discover how bad they are! They are the same as before.
I’m sorry, I’m sure that you are a great guy but it’s totally ok to bash Microsoft, but I don’t think you are really honest about why it matters to you.