Apple's competition for a complete inability to make decent shit that is at least in some alternate universe comparable in quality to what Apple produces, minus a crazy genius' ego.
If you want this, lobby for patent reform.
If you want this, lobby for patent reform.
If you were, by law, allowed to unlock the phone, and they had to allow it, then 99% of Steve Job's crap wouldn't matter.
Yours is a stupid argument that can always be whipped out to justify corporate abuse. Or any other abuse, for that matter.
2> Copyright reform could remove prohibitions on cracking the DRM, allowing people to install whatever and allowing third parties to legally install whatever and to legally bypass the signing and "licensing agreement" which is clearly a license of adhesion, especially in many states.
3> Cell phone law reform could mandate "install whatever" on devices be legal.
The most valuable thing Jobs does is suppress the bozo explosion that invariably occurs at successful companies.
To create a perfect global supply chain that produces complex electronic devices -- yes.
But not for lots of other things. You simply don't need the other people to begin with. If there's no middle management, you don't need a crazy genius to suppress its horribleness.
I'm protecting my passion by quitting all client work. :)
It made a real difference for me.