Pretty sure they are just doing what Apple is already doing. Apple's really closed and locked down platform is doing great, I am sure Microsoft is wanting to emulate them.
If you reading this post on an IPad or your iphone or your mac book pro, you have already voted on the closed platform and how much you love it with your wallet. So get over it.
The MacBook Pro is not a closed platform yet. I can still create and distribute Mac apps in any medium that I feel like. On Mountain Lion, the default security options may make it a little more difficult to exectute apps that have neither been distributed via Apple nor signed with them, but there are entirely official ways of getting round this if needed.
I'm not saying that Apple won't go down this route for Mac at some point. But they have gone there yet.
This is a failed view. Yes, they've voted with their wallets, but "get over it" isn't the appropriate response.
The appropriate response would be to point out that the time for change is here, and you pretty much have to start voting the other way if you're opposed to this direction.
Well I was really talking about the App Store. OSX and Windows both are going to have approved apps (the stuff you can get in their stores) then red headed step child apps that you get else where.
MBP are not closed exactly but they have the same model that everyone is bitching about for windows.
No, they don't. I can download and run a Cocoa app which would be much the same as a Cocoa app I get in the app store. I can't do the same with a Metro app.
If you reading this post on an IPad or your iphone or your mac book pro, you have already voted on the closed platform and how much you love it with your wallet. So get over it.