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I disagree. This seems to be working out pretty well for game consoles. Most cell phones on the market - especially the six year old models - are also pretty much closed systems.
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A phone will soon become more and more a multipurpose devide.
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Apple wants the ability to control the quality of the user experience on the iPhone - not the same thing.
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Apple wants to control everything.
Apple is also interested a lot in intellectual property protection.
You want to use the connection of the iPhone to go into the net with your laptop? I don't think that Apple will allow software that uses up traffic like that.
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Are we talking about Macs or the iPhone? They are two completely separate platforms and I don't understand how you are comparing Windows vs the iPhone as platforms.
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We are talking about the iPhone and smartphones more and more become real platforms.
The problem with the iPhone isn't that it's closed source but that it doesn't let you run the software you want.