[ NNSquad ] Why Mozilla and Google are right about Microsoft's attempt to lock out true competition from its mobile platforms

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Why Mozilla and Google are right about Microsoft's attempt to lock out
true competition from its mobile platforms

http://j.mp/KDIaLE   (Computerworld)

   "Both Mozilla and Google have committed to creating Windows 8 browsers
    that run on both the desktop and in Metro.  Microsoft has said its
    decision to bar other vendors from accessing Win32 APIs in Windows RT
    was driven by security, reliability and performance."

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I'm going to take this a step farther than Mozilla's Anderson has. As
far as I'm concerned, Apple is also problematic in this same area,
despite it not being a "convicted monopolist" like Microsoft. There is
broad consensus in the industry that mobile platform devices of the
sort that represent constricted access regimes will be an ever larger,
over time likely very dominant, aspect of Internet-attached user
devices. This means that associated restricted APIs will increasingly
represent a major anticompetitive threat, in an environment where we
assume conventional desktop devices will be a continually decreasing
percentage of user Internet devices deployed.

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren 
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org 
Founder:
 - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
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