While a lot of open platforms are popular, closed platforms have increased for few years. But do you distinguish open platforms and closed platforms? Continue to read this article to know which computing platforms are not open.
Windows Modern
Normally, we can only install Modern software from the Windows Store. If an application is banned from Microsoft, it will be removed from the Windows Store. This means that we cannot install or run this application on our system.
Apple iOS
This closed platform is extremely famous. iOS users can only applications from Apple Store. If an application is violates any guidelines of Apple, Apple will remove it.
Windows Phone
Windows Phone is not an open platform. Thus, you only install apps from the Windows Phone Store.
Popular Game Consoles
Popular game consoles have been not open platforms for a long time. They requires to be licensed before running on the console.
Source: howtogeek
