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Then, maybe you can start to compare Apple's role in the music player market with Microsoft's role in the operating systems market. The music industry finally throws in the towel on DRM - which is the main reason iTunes tunes won't play on non-Apple players, and why many of the competitors to iTunes won't play on iPods.Apple gimmicks iPods so that they will only play music from iTunes (or so they need to be re-booted between playing iTunes and regular MP3s).Apple engages in anti-competitive practices to force all portable music players to come bundled with iTunes software, forcing lots of existing music players and online music services into oblivion.

But I'll stop there, lest I be branded as an irrational Apple hater.Īpple uses its legal monopoly in portable music players and online music sales to extend that dominance into the phone market.

But to suggest that there's something "irrational" about not being all gooey inside about the iPhone when my phone is smaller, is 3.5G, has a 5MP camera, has 8GB of internal storage, Bluetooth 2, Exchange Push email, GPS, etc.

I agree with your assertion that XMPP is on the "must have" list of a fraction of a percent of users. If you've not seen the latest version of Nokia Maps on an N95, you would be impressed. It's a little amusing that you throw out "wasting time on MMS" when I would view MMS as one of the least important apps on my N95 (and yes, I've used an iPhone, too). It's DPI that matters, really, more so than absolute pixel count. That would seem to imply the lower resolution screen of the N95 was a deliberate choice. Nokia had "figured out how to put a decent screen on a device" way back in 2005 - The N90 had two screens, an exterior 128x128 and an interior main screen of 352x416 resolution.