[joeminkie]

"I would jump ship in a second, but there's nothing I think is worth jumping to."

When I hear someone say this it seems more like the lock-in is coming from within them not from Apple. If you can't find another setup worth jumping to you must not care about Apple's policies, etc as much as you say.

[ant5]

I never said the lock-in came from anywhere but from "within" me. Allow me to simplify:

  (apple user experience) - (annoying policies) > (everbody else's user experience)

Now, this is just my opinion. You might think Linux on the desktop is great, or Windows doesn't make a bad workstation. But I think everybody else has such a godawful UX, I don't know where else to turn.

If someone else managed to couple a great UX with polite policies, I'd switch. Immediately.