Originally Posted by UALOneKPlus

It doesn't matter what the argument is.

Can you imagine if Microsoft charged 30% for all content you purchased using Windows software? People would have massive outcry about evil Microsoft doing that.

Yet here people give evil giant Apple a free pass on doing the same exact thing.

Same thing with Flash. I as a consumer bought the damn thing, I have a right to use flash on it if I wish. Why should Apple prevent me from doing that? Imagine if Microsoft / Windows did the same thing, prevent you from installing software that it deemed not good for you.

How people are being blinded by Apple's insidious behavior, and yet then defending them, is unblievable.

Further more, outside of these discussions, the impacts are real towards consumers, such as myself. Android was slow to gain steam against iPhone, but now it is the top mobile OS for phones. Tablets shall evolve the same way. The iPad is dominant right now because there is no really good Android tablet that can compete right now, but slowly they are chipping away iPad's dominance. In another year or two we shall see Android tablets that will be as good, if not better than iPads, dominating the tablet market.

Back to this topic, using the iPad is a pain in the butt, because of the lack of a real file system. Android has a real file system, on top of flash, on top of the freedom to have apps you choose to use, that makes it really appealing as a real mobile tool, as opposed to the toy, that my iPad 2 is.