What I have an issue with is this assumption that Apple is trying to do evil platform lock in. A lot of what they're doing makes their devices much more conven

What I have an issue with is this assumption that Apple is trying to do evil platform lock in. A lot of what they're doing makes their devices much more convenient to use than they could be otherwise. Perhaps that's a happy coincidence, perhaps it isn't. How would you tell if they were doing it to be "evil" or not? It would look about the same. Of course you could say that they could just make a way for power users to get by all this stuff and that's true, but based on Jobs behavior in the past he seems to be terrified of someone having his stuff crash and blame it on Apple even if it was totally the users fault [1]. They nearly died to Microsoft because of this very thing and history may repeat against Anroid. [1] You might say that's really silly, but most of Windows reputation for being unstable came from 3rd party software.