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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
It’s ironic that people decry a lack of freedom on the iPhone, and yet, it was THE mainstream phone that introduced the world to actively seeking out and installing apps on their own.
Prior to the iPhone, how many people did you know who had custom apps loaded on their Blackberry or other smartphone device?
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You are confusing openess and freedom with accessibility and ease of use. The app store is fantastic and I greatly prefer it to the mess I used to have to go through to buy and download and then transfer apps to my Blackberry. Apple made downloading music and installing approved applications seamless and easy and accessible for everyone through a tightly controlled and highly polished centralized system that could be accessed directly through the device. Freedom would be the ability to put anything on there that you wanted that the hardware was capable of using. It would be the ability to develop any software you wanted and then distribute it widely and openly to anyone you wanted (aside from the 100 people you are limited to under Apple's model before requiring app store approval).