I'm tired of hearing how Apple is "closed". Before Apple there was no expansion plane on computers. The Apple II was the first, and the IBM PC copied it. Befo

I'm tired of hearing how Apple is "closed". Before Apple there was no expansion plane on computers. The Apple II was the first, and the IBM PC copied it. Before Apple there was no open app marketplace, to get your apps on the a cell phone you had to be a big company and do a deal with the carriers. From beginning to end, Apple has been working to open the technology world and empower people. Also, part of empowering people is delivering a quality, safe, reliable user experience. That means things like, not shipping malware in their appstore. Look at Apple, and Steve Jobs personally's, stance on DRM. DRM was a competitive advantage for Apple, because iTunes was the worlds largest digital seller of music, and all the music sold on the iTunes store came with DRM, and could only be played on iPods. Did Jobs and Apple exploit this, or did they try to push the music industry to remove DRM? The answer is obviously the latter... and now music sold on the iTunes music store (a store created to support the iPod and run at break-even for that purpose) can be played anywhere. When they had the power to do so, not only did they not stay proprietary, they lobbied very hard to open up the rest of the music industry. The only place Apple keeps things private is with its inventions, and that's understandable in a world where every graphical interface, and a large chunk of the phones sold are direct ripoffs of Apple's inventions.