In reality, we think the open versus closed argument is just a smokescreen to try and hide the real issue, which is, what’s best for the customer, fragmented versus integrated.

– Steve Jobs, on Why Android isn’t open

Versus merely trying to stuff a product, burrito-style, with as many different features as possible, they target specific user experiences, and build the product around that accordingly.

– Mark Sigal explains Apple’s segmentation strategy, and the folly of conventional wisdom

Everything about web architecture; HTTP, HTML, CSS, is designed to serve and render content, but most importantly the web is formed where all of that content is linked together.

– Ben Ward, Understand The Web