Even by the most lax standard you couldn't call the app store open; and that's kind of what's being shuttered here. The technology wasn't ever particularly int

Even by the most lax standard you couldn't call the app store open; and that's kind of what's being shuttered here. The technology wasn't ever particularly interesting (not a bad thing), but the distribution model was. And that's entirely closed - they're not about to give anyone else permission to run even parts of the app store to anyone else, and that's that.