iTunes/iPod a Winner Despite Being a "Closed" System From Fortune magazine comes an analysis of why Apple's music store/mobile music solution has been so wildly popular even though it follows the same formula that was so disastrous for Apple on the computer desktop. It's interesting to see these analysts struggling to explain it without admitting that Microsoft's victory on the desktop was actually a simple historical fluke, not the result of same grand plan... nor the result of being an "open" system.