I definitely agree with you on there being need for old style closed innovation as well. Crowdsourced innovation (or crowdsourced any other thing for that matter) is of course not the ultimate way of doing business that should be pursued by everybody. It’s simply a new way of doing and adds to the alternatives of positioning your business on the market place.

What Apple does suits them fine and I’m not expecting them to start crowdsourcing their design actvities any time soon.