History shows that walled-garden approaches are severely limited in their scope. They don't scale. If you read the article it says
> As of now, they’re selling around 90K iPhones per day compared to around 60K Android handsets. It’s a horse race!
If those figures are accurate then it's not a horse race. The iPhone is dead. Do the math on growth rates. The iPhone is dead as the dominant platform and will soon occupy the small niche that its closed nature consigns it to.
Except that Android is way more open than Windows ever was, which makes it that much cooler.
Also, regarding the someone hyperbolic grandparent post, iPhone will always have its place, just like Macs have survived nearly 30 years despite being the more tightly controlled platform. Likely (and hopefully), that niche will let them continue to do interesting, beautiful things, without ever coming close to dominating the market, which is a very scary prospect for fans of 'open'.
Also, in terms of the "dominant" platform, outside of the slightly-behind-the-mobile-times Silicon Valley, which seems to have only started noticing mobile phones with the iPhone, the dominant platform, by a long shot, is Java ME.
> As of now, they’re selling around 90K iPhones per day compared to around 60K Android handsets. It’s a horse race!
If those figures are accurate then it's not a horse race. The iPhone is dead. Do the math on growth rates. The iPhone is dead as the dominant platform and will soon occupy the small niche that its closed nature consigns it to.