Co-Inventor of XML Hates the iPhone Vision

Tim Bray, co-inventor of the XML standard, has announced that he will be working for Google in part because he hates the iPhone.

Bray's new title is “Developer Advocate” and his position will be focused on Android. He took the position to help prove that you can't have the benefits of the Internet while at the same time controlling what programs can be run and what parts of the stack can be accessed and what developers can say to each other.


As of now, they’re selling around 90K iPhones per day compared to around 60K Android handsets. It’s a horse race!

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.

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