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> Yet look what happened to sales after they debuted the closed hardware and OS. At the end of the day the mass customer prefers devices that are easy to use an
by mmastrac 9y ago
> Yet look what happened to sales after they debuted the closed hardware and OS. At the end of the day the mass customer prefers devices that are easy to use and hard to break.
I don't think the locked-down device had anything to do with this. You could hack the old iPods with custom firmware to do all sorts of fun things and those things were still the most popular devices on the market.
- jonknee 9y agoThere is a huge difference between "you could hack" and the default. In a system that defaults allowing users to get into trouble, most users get themselves into trouble.