The proprietary i'm talking about with respect to the iphone is the app store. Not just anyone can write for the app store, you have to go through Apple. The

The proprietary i'm talking about with respect to the iphone is the app store. Not just anyone can write for the app store, you have to go through Apple. The point I'm making is that they are control freaks, always have been and it's not new. They want absolute control over their brand. I'm okay with that. It's their company. But I don't like their closed-ness, so I don't buy their closed products. I actually did buy a macbook pro though, precisely because it was more open than a PC -- it'll run windows or mac OS and that I like.