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I agree, and I'm not even trying to broach the politics of it being a closed system. I'm just wondering why lots of very tech savvy people have never minded th

• orangecat 17y ago
  Opportunity cost. The iPhone, and the iPad to an even greater extent, have lots of potential that can't be (easily/legally) utilized because of Apple's control. That's not true of earlier phones, which were too technically limited to do a whole lot even if they were open. It's also not true of consoles which are just locked down PCs; there's not much you could do with a hacked Xbox that you couldn't also do with a Mac mini.
• tlack 17y ago
  I can only speak for myself, but I rarely want to change the way I work with my phone (well, more so lately, but that's a separate Blackberry rant ;) ), and I wouldn't ever want to change the way my mp3 player would work if I had one. But I almost always want to change the way my computer works, since I interact with it in such a rich way and it provides me all of my money. I want that flexibility to hone my tools, but I don't want the flexibility to hone all of my tools..