It appeared to be a thoughtful article until it sidetracked to "Apple locking down devices" in Paragraph 3, and then I saw the all too familiar "closed ecosystem of products." I stopped reading the article.
The use of words on the authors part are quite accusatory, in my view and the article not worth my time in reading.
To me the views of the author "are locked" into a "closed" way of thinking.
Why Apple Does Not Want the iPhone Unlocked and What It Means for Us