If you're talking about what will make a company more profitable in the future, I agree with you. No one chooses one company over another because that company m

If you're talking about what will make a company more profitable in the future, I agree with you. No one chooses one company over another because that company makes more profit. But in the context of this discussion, I don't think it is right to overlook things such as profits, market share and the volume of devices that's on the market. As for your last point, I don't think regular consumers cares about open/closed platforms. They probably don't even know what that means. We're talking about mobile devices, not desktop computers. People want devices that just works, especially if those devices are built to make their lives easier, not harder. Android used to have a lot of problems but now they caught up to iOS (even surpassed it). Android is not where it is today because it is open[1]. Android would've had the same success if it was as closed as iOS. In the general scheme of things, I agree with you. Android is not completely open and definitely not a free software, but it is better for consumers than iOS (and I'm an iOS user). But as long as there's a competition and either of those companies (Apple and Google) don't get to do whatever the hell they want, I'm saying that the consumer wins. It doesn't matter which company has the more open OS. [1] Android had a lot of options in terms of devices, so their openness was a factor in their success, but it was not a major one.