> My impression is that Steve Jobs treated 3rd party software on "his devices" as a necessary inconvenience. He preferred the software he had a hand in, the sof

> My impression is that Steve Jobs treated 3rd party software on "his devices" as a necessary inconvenience. He preferred the software he had a hand in, the software developed in house. I'd say this is the struggle of every big firm. I like and contribute to open source, but I will almost always prefer whatever is built in house because the ease to influencing it's development to satisfy my needs is orders of magnitude smaller. Secondarily, when we build software outside of our host domain (as a business) it breeds innovation. Thanks for layering some context on top of PGs thoughts.