Ask Apple about the competition-obviating iTunes + iPhone tight-binding and it will be your last interview question. Valleywag has the story.
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SubscribeUsing an isolated clip to make an obviously pre-determined point is little more than hack journalism, and not to be taken at face value. I’m sure all of the open-source automatons will stridently defend the validity of this clip, but most of them aren’t smart enough to recognize bad journalism in the first place. Give any experienced interviewer 10 minutes on camera with any one of your programmers, and I guarantee he/she could create an equally embarassing video about Songbird. So, knock off the irresponsible trolling.
If I were a hardware developer that produced a service-providing device, I’m not sure that I would want the FOSS community dumping their crap on my hardware either. Let’s be honest. Third-party software (FOSS, free, or otherwise) is often unstable and occasionally damaging garbage. Why would Apple want all of that junk gumming up the iPhone? Are the two or three decent apps really worth the risk of bricking an untold number of iPhones? And who cleans up the mess afterwards? In my view, Apple has a responsibility to ensure a product that works, and the FOSS community is just too big of a risk.
The vehement defense of Apple that the above two comments resorted to is quite signatory of Apple/Mac fanboys.
Also, I have had experience talking to Microsoft’s PR people, and this video promptly reminded me of their spin-tactics.
This post is merely an observation; not intended to be flamebait.
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