| Sure, it's not as free as platforms in niche markets. I don't have access to much of the equipment I own, but I don't care about a lot of that. My phone falls into that category. Anyway, it's all about relative freedom. The 30% tax is not the 5% royalty of yesteryear. $100 to push to the App Store is not the $30k to licence developer kits of 10 years ago. A market of hundreds of millions is significantly higher than anything ever seen before. The level of censorship that ecosystem owners exert is much, MUCH lower than before e.g. http://www.jjmccullough.com/Nintendo.php iOS' ecosystem is experience rapid Glasnost. Android's is tightening up. Both are immensely more free than anything else, historically and presently. This is a question you have to look at over time. How is this not exciting, and at the same time, completely compatible with the existing and unthreatened harder-core PC market? I think the OP's problem is we're living in a dark age of gaming, much like the Atari bust in the mid 80s. New ideas will arrive and fix the gaming aspect of this. |