I disagree with you regarding Android. Albeit a different platform, thats a bit like saying Windows was never a success and couldn't be because it was closed so

I disagree with you regarding Android. Albeit a different platform, thats a bit like saying Windows was never a success and couldn't be because it was closed source and no one wanted to work with them. In a world where Android didn't exist as an open source solution, if the value proposition was high enough, there still could have been a chance a closed source license OS could have succeeded. We'll never really know.