I agree with you mostly, except being an IT guy, I know how easily people 
attribute any problems that arise to "the network" or to "the IT guy" and they 
do not need any real hard empirical data to back it up. They just "know". 

So let's say Apple allows apps outside their app store to be installed and 
used. Suddenly Joe Shmo's battery is running down in 4 hours. Suzy Shmo 
installs another app and next day all her contacts are getting spammed to 
death, and she cannot log into her bank account anymore because the password 
changed. All of a sudden the iPhone sucks. In their early days that would have 
been fatal. 

I am dealing now with a laptop that is extremely slow. I allowed the end user 
to be an admin with the promise he would not install software that was not 
absolutely necessary, and from a reputable source. I now discover he has a bit 
torrent client and a free movie downloader, and the disk is almost full. 

Freedom comes at a price, especially if the freeman has no compunction towards 
wisdom. 

Bob


On Oct 5, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Andre Garzia wrote:

> You can have a
> curated market and still allow your users to install whatever they want.


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