[alive2007]

Yeah, I definitely agree that iOS is a walled garden. It sucks and I hope Android continues growing in the high-end smartphone field so it can demolish the restrictive ecosystem that is iOS.

The Play Store is relatively free. If anything, at least you can access the Android filesystem so if you so wished, you could install an .apk outside of Google's ecosystem. Jesus.

And that's just mobile. In the desktop and web environment, platforms are super-open. You can pretty much distribute any .exe or .app you'd like on your website and it's the user's fault if he ends up downloading a virus. Furthermore, you can write your webserver code in literally anything you want. There are CGI scripts for C if you were really that insane. I'm pretty sure someone out there has figured out how to turn a physical Turing tape machine into something that generates HTML and CSS templates.

Your templates end up having to have some JavaScript in them, I guess, but even then. JS is still open-source, and it's ended up being more of a target language than it is a programming language these days.