From it's beginning, Apple has always been criticized for being proprietary and inflexible, especially regarding upgradablity of their hardware. They have ALWAYS exercised this type of control over their products. They tried allowing Mac clones and that was a disaster.
The bottom line is that Apple must control he quality of the iPhone and everything that can officially be installed on it. Look at Microsoft. They have wasted countless man-hours over the years having to deal with issues when people install crappy software on Windows.
But Microsoft's problem isn't the openness, it's something else. Even if they only allowed their own software, there would still be a lot of problems. Apple's not done anything to prevent anyone from developing software for OS X and there hasn't been any significant crapware problems that I remember. And that's despite including the development environment with every Mac. So openness really isn't the problem, and I don't see how being closed is the only valid solution, it's not necessarily even a valid solution in itself.
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From it's beginning, Apple has always been criticized for being proprietary and inflexible, especially regarding upgradablity of their hardware. They have ALWAYS exercised this type of control over their products. They tried allowing Mac clones and that was a disaster.
The bottom line is that Apple must control he quality of the iPhone and everything that can officially be installed on it. Look at Microsoft. They have wasted countless man-hours over the years having to deal with issues when people install crappy software on Windows.
But Microsoft's problem isn't the openness, it's something else. Even if they only allowed their own software, there would still be a lot of problems. Apple's not done anything to prevent anyone from developing software for OS X and there hasn't been any significant crapware problems that I remember. And that's despite including the development environment with every Mac. So openness really isn't the problem, and I don't see how being closed is the only valid solution, it's not necessarily even a valid solution in itself.