I think that it demonstrates that we've passed the era where people want "a computer" to do things. People want a smartphones, tablets, notebooks, etc. People are not buying these devices for their raw computing power, and they don't want the freedom to access all of it. People want these devices to "work" at their respective tasks.

Apple is becoming the sole gatekeeper of apps to their devices. For example, after begrudgingly allowing 22 or so "fart" apps into the app store, they said, "ok, we gave you some fart apps, now you have enough fart apps, we aren't going to allow any more fart apps into the store". If some developer comes up with the best fart app ever, there is no practical way for him to distribute it any more.

I see this as an insane amount of power for one company to have. Imagine if MS did the same thing with windows. If they did it 10 years ago, they would have been sued for monopolistic practices, but now that Apple's doing it, and Apple is a viable competitor to MS, can't MS do the same thing, and now we are stuck with basically 2 companies deciding all of the software that can be installed on 99% of the computers that people use?

This is a sad future to me.