That is just not true.
Many market dominating companies/products aim for the exact opposite: try to be "platform" instead of "product". For example Google Apps and Salesforce.
Many market dominating companies/products aim for the exact opposite: try to be "platform" instead of "product". For example Google Apps and Salesforce.
But Google Apps is not a good exampe of "openess"
Google is historic about closing off Dev and API Access (See Nest product line), Removing Open protocol from services (i.e removing XMPP from Chat and Hangouts), and killing products that have more open API's replacing them with less open ones
...When you deal with the tech giants they are so large that different divisions commonly have totally different goals and ethos; some divisions are transparent and great to work with, others are pure nightmare.