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With 28 years of tenure writing software for a living I can confidently state that open architecture doesn't do much for the average person. Apex has a API. REST is good stuff but the average person doesn't know how JavaScript works, has no way to store the historical data and would have no idea what to do with it if the did. Likely get their iPad hacked if they fooled around with it. You can grab that data already with a packet sniffer if you really need it. The whole fusion gig is really not bad at all and simplifying the process of interrogating the data for 99.9% of their customers is a good thing.
I got you beat I started programming in 1975. I now mostly work cloud related stuff and yes it's open source, other than AWS. Open source is not for the average joe, it's for developers that want to spend their off time contributing to something they are interested in. Apex is klugey and not open. Again open source is not necessarily the same as open systems. Here were talking about well publish and tested APIs that vendors can hook their stuff up to with out the main vendor. This promotes the average joe to innovate and add products at a reasonable price point. Apex is in no ones imagination reasonably priced, because they are a closed system. Give me a rest API and I'll put together audrino products at a much cheaper price.