True, but it's less relevant now with web and phone apps that are sandboxed.
In the pre-internet days, I could write my sensitive documents in a closed-source word processor and pretty much the worst thing it could do was silently corrupt or alter my file. Now, a sufficiently malicious word processor could very easily upload a copy to its developer's servers, and make such activity nearly impossible to detect as long as it had a legitimate purpose to phone home.