This open vs closed argument is getting interesting.

Concerns about Apple's iPhone app store, from Macworld editorial director Jason Snell:

It's not something you may even notice today if you're an average iPhone user. But in the end, if things don't change, what's happening right now may seriously weaken the iPhone as a platform and enable Apple's competitors to get the upper hand when it comes to dominating the smartphone market.

More: Fears that the iPhone could become "a marginalized and limited product, all of its potential exhausted by the idiocy of Apple's tight-fisted control of the App Store...Apple policy [...] risks the entire future of the iPhone platform.

Paging Dr. Zittrain, Jonathan Zittrain, please call your office.