PCs need to be open, cell phones less so. PCs have ever been so, cell phones have not. That's not actually hypocritical however dischordant it may sound to some.
> PCs need to be open, cell phones less so
Why is it more important for PCs to be important?
I'd argue that, because PCs and smartphones were open and closed respectively when they gained popularity, we've been conditioned to assume those states are permissible. I think if those initial conditions did not influence our perception of the products so strongly we would value openness equally across both. Since we are influenced though, we seem to be inclined to focus on the negative of the each's alternative option (anti-competitive PC market places and virus-ridden cell phones, respectively).
Woops, meant to say why is it more important for PCs to be open.
Full disclosure: I work at MS, my words are mine only.
"You can no longer install games on windows 8 except through the windows store."
vs
"Some versions of windows 8, which come under the bracket of windows RT but will still be referred to as windows 8, will not allow you to load specific metro apps without buying them through the windows store, but desktop programs will be run and installed as normal. The famous people in the news complaining about Microsoft locking down windows are wrong."
Full disclosure: I could be wrong in the exact details of the second statement, it's just what I've gleaned thus far from reading comments about it.
What I see when I press the Windows key on my keyboard tells me you're wrong. That's still my desktop, whether you want to call it the desktop or not.