Microsoft and Apple have the same plan to push their walled gardens: Make "open" into an expensive niche for professionals. The low-end and mid-range of the m

Microsoft and Apple have the same plan to push their walled gardens: Make "open" into an expensive niche for professionals. The low-end and mid-range of the market will be running iOS or WinRT, on ARM hardware. The professionals and, in the case of MS, corperate users will run OSX and Win8PRo, on X86 based chipsets. The ability to side-load will cost you at least 999 dollars for Apple ( price of cheapest OSX device ), and something around 800 dollars for a win8pro/x86 device. The result will be, that those configurations wont be targetted for consumer stuff. This effectively kills of alternative marketplaces for consumer oriented products. Like, say, Steam!