Android’s Fight Against Apple Gets a New Ally: Tim Bray
By Chris Weiss
Google has gotten a powerful, new member of its Android team: Tim Bray. Bray, the co-inventor of XML, as well as a tech blogger and a former employee at Sun Microsystems, joined the Android team as a Developer Advocate earlier today and had some pretty strong words in favor of Google’s approach to mobile over Apple’s.
Bray offers a strong rebuke of Apple: “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. I hate it.”
Given Apple’s recent whitewashing of the App Store, and the recently published iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, it’s tough to argue with that assessment. Bray writes that he prefers Android and calls it ”as unambiguously a good thing as the tangled wrinkly human texture of the Net can sustain just now”. To read Bray’s full assessment of Android v. Apple, take a look at his post on ongoing by Tim Bray. [via CNET]
