Like Apple cares. Apple has spent the better part of the past 10 years building a very strong, vertically-integrated mobile platform. Nowhere does it say that such a platform must be open to anyone and everyone. Nowhere does it say that such a platform needs to allow for endless user "customization" (read as: nerds with no life playing with their toys until 4am). If you don't like it, buy Android. Buy Nokia. Buy Windows Mobile, or whatever they're calling it. You have plenty of choices.
Do you really want the iOS platform to be another Windows, with all of the incompatibilities and problems associated with trying to ensure a quality user experience across all sorts of random hardware? What makes you (and these big tech giants) so entitled? Apple isn't strong-arming anyone. Apple isn't telling company X that you can't have an operating system license unless you do this, that, and the other.
Apple is simply building a walled garden, one that hundreds of million of people appreciate for its simplicity, elegance, and stability. I'm so sick of whiny nerds who think they have some right to tear down the garden wall just because. Well, I've got news for you. The rest of Apple's customers, you know, the other 99%, don't want that. We like the fact that our devices just work. If you want a more "open" (read: chaotic, uncontrolled) platform, go Android. Customize away. Download all kinds of apps from all kinds of sources with no guarantee that what you downloaded isn't a trojan or spyware. But just because YOU want this, don't assume that the rest of us do.
And suggesting that Apple's "revolutionary innovation" has dried up since 2007 is just stupid. Yeah, everyone is trying to catch Apple, trying to copy Apple, trying to out-Apple Apple, and you say they can't innovate. Why don't you go troll somewhere else? You obviously have nothing of value to add to this conversation.
