Perhaps, it still doesn’t make Tim’s claim false. Surely they can patch the vulnerability.

The point is, the world is pushed back into prodigy land of closed systems. Sure, it was completely wild west during the period when everything was open and that, the current state is defacto consolidation... however, innovation has its limits once kept in a sand box. From an ecosystem perspective, there are ways in which, closed systems and open world can exist.

Google and apple have for better or worse decent ecosystems, but, have they not stiffled competition in subtle yet effective ways for years?