Why Steve Jobs died

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[the] controlling trend he set with apple has caused almost all major companies to take the same route in order to make more profit.

I'm not sure I agree, here. If we are talking about the iPhone, Android is the only known smartphone competitor, and it is Open Source.

If you are talking about other Apple products like the iPad versus the Kindle or Nook, then there isn't really an argument that can be made, since most technology products have long kept proprietary elements tied to their products in order to maximize profits. The same goes with cellular phones. It is very rare to find one charger that will fit many phones. Each phone has its own proprietary connection. Why? Because part of the total profit for phones comes from the accessories, which companies rely on to help support their bottom line.

Same with content and the "walled up" hardware from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Apple, among others. These devices can read in content that has been converted into their proprietary formats to maximize their own profit.

everything apple. from itunes to phones being locked to hardware in apple computers being made extremely hard to replace, despite being comprised of common pc components, then sold to people from exorbitant prices, with the only difference in between a pc using similar parts and apple being the o/s.

Does it suck for the consumer? Sure! But is Apple responsible for setting such a trend? Absolutely not. It's been happening far longer than Apple has even been around.

Steve

not really. once, even apple itself was a rather open company, until jobs' second ascent to power there.

back in 1990s, information technology trend was all about openness and modification, and freedom of the user. thankfully, internet debuted in this period.

then ipod and itunes came, with it came drm, excessive profits, and many more. which prompted everyone to do the same, leading to the 'one galled warden to rule them all' approach with the advent of smartphones. now they are wanting to shove everything into one closed ecosystem and cash the cows in there, with cows being customers.

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all of these, without even touching the patent/trademark/copyright dominance apple has attempted under jobs in last decade. to the point of claiming ownership to the letter i, in australia, to rounded shiny metal edges in europe.