[schmichael]

Closed has benefits. "Curated" is a nice euphemism for closed.

It's much easier to childproof a curated app store than The WWW for example.

I'm not saying closed is better -- they're just different and that's ok. In fact I like how different they are. It means each has its own unique strengths and doesn't have to worry about trying to do it all.

[yoklov]

IMO what you want are curated views into open platforms. Some arbiter deciding what is/isn't acceptable for the platform is very far from ideal. Consider all the great games that have been prevented from going on iOS.

Admittedly, something like this seems difficult to do for the web.