> Well, if I want to view Flash on my smartphone later this year, I'll buy an Android phone. I will have that freedom of choice.
Android, right now today, gives you the choice to turn Flash off if you don't like it.
Not having software available at all on an OS platform isn't choice. A supermarket is not an OS platform, but to continue abusing the analogy, Whole Foods bananas refusing to work in the same meal as Tesco milk would be Strange and Wrong.
> Not having software available at all on an OS platform isn't choice.
You choose the OS platform. And if this is the argument, why aren't people complaining that Windows doesn't run OSX apps, or that the PS3 doesn't run Xbox 360 games?
I think reasonable people understand the platform is the place they make a choice.
> A supermarket is not an OS platform, but to continue abusing the analogy, Whole Foods bananas refusing to work in the same meal as Tesco milk would be Strange and Wrong.
A supermarket absolutely is a platform, an architecture and framework for food distribution, distinguished from competing platforms by philosophy, branding, and positioning.
We're talking about the goods a store offers for sale, and the store's right to decide what goods to carry. We've established that production methodology is a widely accepted criterion for a store carrying or rejecting a good. The platform determines the goods offered, and the consumer chooses the platform.
> You choose the OS platform. And if this is the argument, why aren't people complaining that Windows doesn't run OSX apps, or that the PS3 doesn't run Xbox 360 games?
If someone had a great OS X app they'd ported to Windows, and Microsoft refused to run it, yes indeed, I'd be furious.
I think you're actually the first genuine troll I've met on HackerNews. Feel free to continue posting by this is the last time I'm responding to your posts.
Android, right now today, gives you the choice to turn Flash off if you don't like it.
Not having software available at all on an OS platform isn't choice. A supermarket is not an OS platform, but to continue abusing the analogy, Whole Foods bananas refusing to work in the same meal as Tesco milk would be Strange and Wrong.