[hosay123]

At what point do people start believing that Google has a strong interest in carving out its own proprietary ecosystem, all their openness "plays" always lead to the same thing: some rhetorical platform used only to advance their private agenda. Chrome and Android will soon be Internet Explorer and Windows of the 21st century.

[rryan]

This gives companies an easy way to distribute their corporate apps internally where they would previously have to sideload them on employee phones. How is this related to your claims?

[patrickaljord]

I would love to be able to git clone IE like I can right now with AOSP and Chrome.

[hosay123]

It's great, and I absolutely love how I can independently host Google Play and Chrome Store.. oh wait a second.

[nl]

I'm not sure your sarcasm makes sense.

You can't host either Google Play or Chrome Store, but you can write your own and install apps from them.

There are many other Android appstores around - most phone vendors and carries have one, many large enterprises have their own and there are a number of 3rd party ones.

I don't think there are any other Chrome stores but I suspect that has more to do with the lack of use Chrome apps have.

[Evbn]

You can't install a certificate to enable your Chrome to one-click install a user.js from apple.com or Mozilla.org, but you can install extensions from Google.com. That is not an open web.

[salmanapk]

I won't suggest any non-technical person to use the "open web" you guys want.

[giulianob]

They do have an ecosystem but it's built on top of a platform they've open sourced. Also, you are allowed to load apps manually into the phone so you aren't really tied into their ecosystem.

[jonursenbach]

I'm going to be that guy and ask: why?

[jrockway]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)

[jonursenbach]

I suspected but it's getting really hard to weed them out lately.