[DiapDealer]

That's fair. But I do think many people often delude themselves about just how much "open" the market would actually embrace. Don't underestimate the size of the "I just want it to work" crowd. Because to the technologically challenged (and to some extent, the technologically ambivalent), "open" is synonymous with "fiddly" and/or "easily bricked". They want no part of it. Strange as it may be for some of us to comprehend, many people are quite happy that the ability to render their device unusable is locked away from them.

I, myself, am quite happy that I have access to devices that I can buy and hack and customize to my hearts content (though I find myself losing the desire to root much of anything these days -- even if it's easy). I'm equally happy that I can buy my octogenarian father a locked down device that "just works" (that he can't accidentally fat-finger into oblivion because it's wide open like a barn door).

I know people (my dad included) who could break the technological equivalent of an anvil. If his iphone was any more "open", I'd get nothing done but fixing his phone.