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Smartphones: The Mobile Industry Is About to Get 'Blown Apart'

These people who rant openness, but have little evidence that openness -
1. Is a good business philosophy, in terms of
standards discipline,
innovation once, innovations many times,
business profitability, staying power long term.
Face it. Openness causes proliferation of inconsequential products, a competitive quagmire, no profits to support product innovation, and short term business failure.
As a consumer, I'll be danged if I want that environment. Take this word apart and what it means is that anybody can take your product apart and modify it and screw it up, demand that you repair it and vilify your name - - just because he bought it.
I'll bet that the author of this article can't even define what openness means.