The New Yorker is Wrong ⇥

Although Apple makes the phone and the operating system itself, and although every app is sold through the App Store, the system is far more open than the Mac ever was: there are more than four hundred thousand iPhone apps written by outside developers. Some are even designed by Apple’s competitors […]

Because the iPhone App Store has more apps available in a single destination, that makes it more open than a computer with multiple distribution points where any application can access the entire file system?