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Originally Posted by JohnnyFlame
Why reinvent the wheel? Why shouldn't other phone companies have been forced to put in their own lines as an example? Apple does not need to do the garden wall mentality thing. Palm ruled for years with allowing anybody who felt like it to add apps. Many of which were better than what they put out.
If I as a customer want to be able to hook up to iTunes from an alternate device why shouldn't I be able to? What's the difference to me how I do it. Competition is a good thing. I figured Apple was finally wising up when they took the DRM off but apparently not.
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Apple is a hardware company. Company's make money for shareholders.
Apple sells software at next to no margin to drive high margin hardware sales. If they allow other hardware open access they sell less high margin hardware but more low margin software making shareholders angry. Apple closes store.
How is this good for competition? History is littered with examples of allowing such openness and companies dying. It already almost killed Apple.
Where's Atari? They opened up and died. Yes, Palm ruled for years and look where they are today. If the Pre fails, bye bye Palm.
Why aren't the same standards held to video games? Why should I have to get the permission from Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft to create video games? Why can't I play them on another device? It's because Atari tried to open it up and they got slaughtered. Sony Nintendo and Microsoft aren't stupid.