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Originally Posted by Regorium
Creating proprietary formats and forcing it upon the consumer.
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That and they have a an interest in controling the entire experience. Apple used to strike a good balance at leaving the option for 3rd party solutions. They now seem to be closing that loop. Not only with the iPhone but with the iPod and certain accessories. Mac OS X.5 has also eliminated development for such programs as pith helemet and OS haxies.
They don't so much as create proprietary formats, the ones they use are open such as PDF for quartz, open gl for 3D, mp4 and h.264 for video, webkit for web and so on and so on. They are also a decent contributer to open source development of the Mach kernel and BSD Unix.
As I said earlier, recent actions are very unapple like.