It is a fact that many popular platforms are still open platforms while closed platforms have increased for few years. But which computing platforms are open? Continue to read this article.
Apple Mac OS X
This computing platform is open. Its store has various restrictions on developers and subjects their apps to sandboxing. However, developers can leave it and deliver their products directly to users. Additionally, users can disable a setting restricting to install apps from outside the store.
Linux & Google Chrome OS
You can install anything you want on Linux and chrome OS which is a platform based on Linux. You can tog on developer mode and install other software alongside your Chrome OS system. What is more, users still can install apps and extensions from outside the store though Chrome can only install web apps and extensions from the Chrome Web Store by default.
Google Android
Google Android is an open platform. As you are aware, you only can install software from Google Play by default but there is still a way to install Android apps from outside the store.
Amazon Kindle Fire
Due to being based on an Android, Amazon Kindle Fire is also offers the same freedom. It means users can install apps from outside Amazon’s Appstore.
BlackBerry
You can install apps from outside BlackBerry’s app store when using BlackBerry devices.
In fact, these open platforms offer the freedom to decide what runs without becoming criminals because a open platform lets developers to easily distribute their software directly to users.
Source: howtogeek
