Sentence examples for closed platform from inspiring English sources

It runs on a single carrier in each country, and it runs on a closed platform.

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

However, development experts lambasted the World Bank for supporting Google's closed platform, which would not allow users free access to the map data they would create.

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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.

That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet … obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation".

With its new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) initiative, Microsoft has built a closed platform-within-a-platform into Windows 10, as the first apparent step towards locking down the consumer PC ecosystem and monopolising app distribution and commerce.

I myself don't like the closed platforms; I think it is important that you have choice".

Already, more Android devices ship than Apple ones.This year will see a gory battle between open and closed platforms, and between multi-purpose devices and specialised gaming gadgets.

Conventional consoles from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo lock users into closed platforms and demand that users pay high prices for games produced by big-name developers.

"This is the last gateway to the internet and this is a battle between open and closed platforms," said Chip Pickering, president of Incompas, a lobbying group that represents Google and Amazon in support of the plan.