"But what being open wins you is support of the community, and in particular, "developers, developers, developers"." I think the Android argument can play out

"But what being open wins you is support of the community, and in particular, "developers, developers, developers"." I think the Android argument can play out the other way, and I say that as someone who is onto his 3rd Android phone, never owned an iPhone yet was an Objective C programmer in a former life and total mac-head. Android may be open, and Apple App Store has it's problems but monetization opportunities are much bigger on iOS platform because everything is geared towards paying for apps. No one I know pays for apps on Android. Plus, app dev for iPhone is cheaper because it's (sort of) one platform rather than Android's disparate handsets due to it's very openness. Another case in point: Facebook FBML Platform vs Open Social. Developers way preferred the close Facebook Platform over the open standard Open Social (again, I was part of that so I say it with some disappointment).