I guess the reason some of us complain about the openness aspect is that it seems like Apple is moving the opposite way that the best tech companies are going. Openness is the future. Firefox, Android, linux are all gaining market share left and right, and they're all open source or at least open-oriented. Even iTunes dropped DRM, and considered that an improvement, so why all the efforts to lock down what people can do? If you don't want to risk unapproved apps, no one makes you install them. Android even makes you flip a Settings switch to allow non-Market apps.
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