New Android teammate: iPhone a "Disney-fied walled garden"

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March 15, 2010

XML co-creator Tim Bray on Monday said he has joined Google as a Developer Advocate, primarily for Android. The former Sun worker made the pick both because Android embraces an open-source, web-heavy philosophy but also as a direct opposition to Apple’s iPhone policies. Bray praised Apple’s hardware but couldn’t abide by the at times arbitrary filtering of the App Store, which he likened to censorship….