The thesis of this piece is that Steve Jobs was less controlling after he returned to Apple than before, and that the iPhone "is far more open than the Mac ever was..."
I am guessing that James Surowiecki does not read Hacker News. Would anyone here care to make the case that iOS is more "open" than the Mac, in any sense?
The more interesting point he doesn't mention is the swithch over from PowerPC architecture to Intel x86. Has anyone done a good analysis of the impact?