Sentence examples for be a closed platform from inspiring English sources

Update: we asked Microsoft whether UWAs would be a closed platform, with only licensed developers able to develop for games.

The concern voiced by Sweeney and echoed by other developers the Guardian has spoken to is that UWP is a closed platform, which means developers will need to be licensed by Microsoft to distribute games written using the platform.

Although Mr. Glaser has argued that the iPod is a "closed" platform, industry analysts said that it was still effectively "open" because consumers can move digital music from their compact discs to play on the music player.

The Kindle is a closed platform.

Some criticisms are that it is a closed platform.

Stalder agrees "Offline payments, which represents trillions of dollars has generally been a closed platform but the mobile phone is changing this".

Adobe Sr. Director of Engineering Paul Betlem made the announcement, stating "My team is working on Flash on the iPhone, but it's a closed platform".

Before today the iPhone was a closed platform that only gave third party applications access via the browser (or though hacks).

Snapchat has largely escaped scrutiny about fake news and election interference because its content quickly disappears and its publisher hub, Discover, is a closed platform.

Betlem's insistence that the iPhone is a closed platform is meant to infer that Adobe isn't ultimately in control of whether or not Flash will ever make an apperance.

Unlike rival Android, owned by Google, Apple's operating system for the iPhone and iPad is a closed platform on which every app must be preapproved by the company.