Why not expend all of your efforts and load your iPhone with Windows Mobile Media? It should be a thing of beauty. You sound like a PC kind of guy. You and Steve Ballmer deserve one another.

1)Ford Excels have greater markert share than Lamborghinis. I'll rather have a lamborghini.

2) The only reason Windows has greater market share is that it ran on cheap clones. But because of this Windows has all kinds of horrible compatibility issues. Today windows price advantage is shrinking because apple with intel is competitive on pricing.

3) Because Apple has smaller market share it can grow faster now. Apple can Double, can Windows?

Apple one year return 138%.

Microsoft 39%

As an investor you would have made a lot more money on Apple.

Apple market share 163 Billion. OS Market share 8%. Who is the genius now?

Europe tends to be more finicky about antitrust laws than the US. They're going to get burned over this within the next year. Sooner or later, they'll learn from this. Apple is too good of a company to allow things like this to tarnish their image.

Right now, they're in a perfect position to put their MAC OSx on the open market. If they do, they would probably take 10-20% market share away from MS win a year. Microsoft will always have the edge in the commercial market, but Apple could easily own the consumer and multimedia market.

If Apple wants to keep bugs out of their products, the most ethical thing to do is to make and enforce high standards from software and hardware vendors. When you exploit your smart consumers for the "greater good," you only lose your smart consumers.

i see more childish, if not drone quality retorts from the people defending apple and at&t then the people crticizing.

let's start with the tiff exploit: updating and fixing this exploit would have absolutely no impact on third party applications (who the hell uses tiff anymore, aside screenprinters? i'm a graphic designer, i see maybe half a dozen tiff images a year, and they come from clients with equipment that's about 10 years outdated) so, really, let's stop blinding ourselves so willingly as to why and what.

the update, whether the tiff is a subversion, a ruse, or just an also-ran meant to validate this 'update' (microsoft's done similar stunts on patch tuesdays) also.. is shifty. no one does a point release for one single fix. no one. this update better be loaded for there to be a point release justification.

someone already covered it. follow the money. at&t has contracts with apple that include plans for profiting off 3rd party applications, not letting people develop and install them of their own accord. (comparative common application: mozilla firefox, with its freely developed and dispersed extensions.)

expect to pay money for your 3rd party applications, becuase really folks.. steve jobs is just out to job you