Successful apps have more to lose from being on such an ecosystem than they stand to gain. It’s why so much software starts out as wanting to be open, dominates

Successful apps have more to lose from being on such an ecosystem than they stand to gain. It’s why so much software starts out as wanting to be open, dominates the market, then puts up the garden walls. The closest we have to this is app stores - and look how everyone moans about them.