Because consumers don't care how developers are treated, nor do they care about walled gardens like we do. They buy the iPhone because of the brand, or they us

Because consumers don't care how developers are treated, nor do they care about walled gardens like we do. They buy the iPhone because of the brand, or they use Android because that's the free phone that was available, or the one the Verizon store pushed. Geeks like us spend a lot of energy projecting our beliefs onto an audience who simply does not care. I know I've gotten riled up about open standards and DRM and stuff like that; my non-geek friends just roll their eyes at me. Maybe they do it because they don't care. Or maybe they do it because we geeks treat everything like a Chicken-Little sky-is-falling thing.