Is the Kindle closedness about ensuring that the hardware experience is good or about ensuring eBook marketplace control? People call me naive, but I honestly

Is the Kindle closedness about ensuring that the hardware experience is good or about ensuring eBook marketplace control? People call me naive, but I honestly think that Apple's motivation in running the various iStores is to ensure a good experience. The music store was targeted to ensure that people would be able to buy all their music digitally. The labels required that DRM be on every thing. When Jobs won, he kickdropped the DRM. Apple isn't required to sign every app that goes on its phones, but keeping rigorous controls has kept the user experience pretty good and, like it or not, it's encouraged an ecosystem to grow because developers can ask for a little money for their work and get paid for it. Also, let's be honest about these apps for a minute. You're not gonna run that shit in an emulator on your Googlephone. There is no iPhone clone. And when your iPhone dies and you get a new one, you just sync it all back up again. To be fair, I didn't think it was a good idea when Steve-o said there weren't going to be native apps on the iPhone, but I don't know how much of that was some sort of weird business decision and how much of it was because they had no idea when the SDK was going to be ready. It's the balance between practical freedom and idealistic freedom. The Kindle trods upon a lot of practical freedoms at the cost of little in the way of an enhanced experience.