Well imo the latest OSX versions share some code between OSX and iOS, the App Store could be seen as another sign on the road to a more closed consumer system.
iOS has shared a lot of code with MacOS since its inception...
> the App Store could be seen as another sign on the road to a more closed consumer system.
Well, could be, perhaps, but highly speculatively. It's not like the app store on MacOS was an amazing world first, or anything; notably, Ubuntu had a paid app store before the MacOS one.
I'm not sure why people continue to believe this; they've shown no real signs of doing so in the past seven years.