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by bartmcpherson 5455 days ago
Getting companies to develop software for your OS would be very hard. Your OS would have to have hooks into the outside software to know what the program wanted to do with a file handle. Create a new mp3? Change the info of the mp3? Add album art? Play the Mp3? Delete it? What about future features that haven't been thought of yet?

The outside company just wants the ability to access a file. What it does with it is not up to the OS.