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It is a rational industry response to have a degree of distrust over Microsoft's intentions. Tim Sweeney, writing about the Universal Windows PlatformIn a wellargued new piece on VentureBeat, Cheap RS Gold Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney lays out a case for Microsoft to keep Windows 10 an open platform and suggests exactly what road the company could take to do so.At issue, in his view, is the Universal Windows Platform. UWP is a set of APIs that, according to Microsoft, lets developers reach all Windows 10 devices with their apps, but according to Sweeney, also represents a first step toward locking down the currently open consumer PC ecosystem.
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A new yearendreport from mobile analytics firm Flurry suggests the lion's shareofnew mobile devices activated over the last week are running iOS, as Apple accounts for 49.1 percent of new mobile device activations worldwide between December 19th25th.That's Christmas week, and the ensuing high volume of gifts given worldwide makes the dominance of Apple's Old School RS Gold platform notable for mobile game makers hoping to take advantage of a new influx of customers.Given thatApple is the only company making iOS devices, this also suggests that iOS and its biggest competitor Android were neckandneck in terms of new device activations.