Irony (and utility) is lost on Apple haters
Please, before you flame, know this: I totally and utterly expect nothing less. You will be confirming my suspicions, and granting the accuracy of my assertions. So do it, please.
Apple produces products that address the actual needs, skills and knowledge of users, not IT professionals, developers, hackers or the jaded IT press corps. It has always been a "closed" system, because that allowed it to offer clearly understood and consistent experiences to its users. For that, these users trade a freedom they could never experience (the freedom of coding, if you will), for a freedom they use every day (the freedom of effectively using a variety of technologies). To suggest that Apple is killing innovation is utterly specious nonsense. The established number of Mac users is less than 10% of Windows users even today. Mac addicts who drool at anything Apple without understanding half the features are annoying, to be sure, but they are far less annoying than the DOS 5.1 addicts still trying to assert that their coding freedom counts for more than actual utility by the vast majority of users who will never understand how their machines work, but still want to use them effectively.
Back in 1987, and 1992, and 1997, you folks were the same lot who cheerfully beat your breasts about Apple's impending doom, and how they produced cute "toys" rather than real machines. This while your messiah, Bill G, was doing whatever possible to create a Windows experience that emulated the Mac as closely as possible. Today it does pretty much that, but with less efficiency and more crashes. Now you can't simply write off Apple, so instead you've moved on to bad-mouthing their (incredibly successful) products, and even slagging Steve Jobs while his body's not quite cold.
Look yourselves in the mirror and ask: who's really part of a cult?