You know... in re: Apple and DRM, I think Apple has been stripping it away about as much as could be expected: music: none on any of the music in their store a

You know... in re: Apple and DRM, I think Apple has been stripping it away about as much as could be expected: music: none on any of the music in their store anymore, now that they actually have the negotiating clout to get away with it video: still there, but the TV/movie industry isn't yet in as bad a position as the music industry was, and if Apple tries to take away the DRM they will just leave. Note the absence of any other video store without DRM. apps: yes, they do have DRM which is in fact entirely painless for users and the only reason you'd want to strip it off an app is to pirate it (which people do). As far as allowing non-appstore apps, a) there's jailbreaking which Apple hasn't made any significant effort to stop beyond the initial jailbreak which was via a Safari exploit that allowed arbitrary code execution, and b) one could certainly argue that the reason why they don't is to ensure that their platform continues to run well in as many cases as possible. see: the number of android apps that will quite possibly fuck up your OS in a number of ways.