Google Voice, C64 BASIC, and now this! Yay Apple!
Apple is a corporation, and isn't human. Don't be fooled; they are only responding to market pressure.
No need to call out the man, just applaud a company for taking a step in the right direction.
Sure. But market pressure, when examined through a powerful microscope, turns out to be composed of thousands of individual atoms of customer feedback. Like the one above.
So we should encourage them not to make the same mistakes again, but it's not a reason to sing their praise.
edit: but no reason not to give them shit for anything bad they do, of course.
Because it technically rewards bad behaviour, you wouldn't be singing their praise now if they had not messed up first.
1) mess up
2) do an about face
3) reap praise.
The bad decision is only being reversed on a case by case basis - this isn't good enough.
Also, can't wait to use VLC on Windows Phone 7!