I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
AppleGabe NewellGeorge Lucas should have distributed the "source code" to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most of them would be terrible, but a few would be genius.
Quotes about Star WarsGabe NewellThe programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.
Programmers & CodersGabe NewellThere's nobody who works in VR saying, "Oh, I'm bored with this." Everybody comes back.
Virtual RealityGabe NewellComputing lets people express their creativity and unlock solutions, and code is computing's universal language. All young people, including girls, deserve to be fluent in the language of the future.
Programmers & CodersGabe NewellPhotoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
PhotoshopGabe Newell