Sentence examples for open alternatives from inspiring English sources

Is the iPad analogous to the iPod, which essentially owns the category, or more like the iPhone, with which Apple opened a commanding lead only to have Google, through its Android software, close the gap through cheaper and more open alternatives?

These open alternatives are starting at zero.

It's unsurprising that free and open alternatives are now arising, threatening the existence of these long-established gatekeepers.

One way of expressing this point in more general terms is that the incompatibililst holds that for responsibility we need more than freedom of action, we also need freedom of will — understood as a power to choose between open alternatives.

Mozilla's Firefox and Labs projects has obviously introduced some innovative features and technologies over the years, but there are still aspects of the web — like identity — that simply don't have any good, widely used open alternatives.

But when you try to rock the boat, the powers-that-be will likely have something to say about it — especially when thousands of beta testers across 2,000 universities are using free, open alternatives.

"The market wants an open alternative to A.W.S. and VMWare.

This is an open alternative to that," the person also said.

Nevertheless, Google is promoting its e-book plan as a fundamentally different and more "open" alternative to its rivals' stores.

Mr. Chisari, who estimates that Appleseed is six months away from opening to the public, is not the only one trying to create an open alternative.

In what looks like damage limitation, the Cabinet Office has paid the Open Data Institute, a not-for-profit organisation, to build an open alternative.