If there's one thing that we've all learned from roughly 30 years of consumer computing technology, it's that closed always loses and open always wins.Except when it doesn't. And then it's the fault of something else.To see this school of "thought" put into practice, witness this piece by Simon Phipps in InfoWorld: BlackBerry and Nokia: The perils of a closed strategy (tip o' the antlers to Yaakov).Was it closed strategies that caused them to fail or was it sitting on their butts eating bonbons while their houses burned down around them and they were forced to sell said houses mid-fire?The recent sunsets of both Nokia and BlackBerry came as no surprise to many.Yes, when you see a truck drive off a cliff in slow motion, it's not that surprising when it eventually explodes on imp
