Open and Shut ⇥ daringfireball.net

John Gruber, regarding the Tim Wu article in the New Yorker:

I think what Wu and his brethren believe is not that companies win by being “open”, but that they win by offering choices. […]

Where others offer choices, Apple makes decisions. What some of us appreciate is what so rankles the others — that those decisions have so often and consistently been right.