"Can Apple’s success with its walled-garden environment be characterized and justified in free-market capitalist terms? I.e., do you believe that Apple’s policy

"Can Apple’s success with its walled-garden environment be characterized and justified in free-market capitalist terms? I.e., do you believe that Apple’s policy of encouraging consumers to forego certain freedoms in exchange for greater utility, and consumers’ decision to accept that tradeoff is an ethical one, in that ethical framework?" Exactly! iPad will not kill openess it will inspire open platforms to be better.