[joe_the_user]

Yes,

And an application framework might, maybe lead to substandard application. But Apple can and supposedly already does control for application quality, so the only reason for the further restriction is ... monopoly control.

Both Microsoft and Apple created an skewed playing field in the application space to further their agendas. Microsoft did this by having secret APIs that only they and their friends could use. Apple did this by including extraneous requirements to the App Store.

[akshaybhat]

Microsoft has Secret API??? Can you name a single product which benifitted from it???

Let me remind you its Apple which didnt allow access to GPU to flash dev.

[joe_the_user]

Ever heard of Microsoft Office?

This page has a link to Andrew Shulman's testimony; http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20070208195343...

"The source code for Windows XP and Microsoft Office provide additional bases for opinion #21 in my June 2, 2006 technical expert report (“Microsoft Office uses (and copies) undocumented DirectUI APIs”)."

Andrew Schulman, btw Author of "Unauthorized Windows 95" - IE, foremost expert on Windows Internals outside of Microsoft...