[jaydles]

Um, the MySpace reference seems to highlight Joel and others' point: practically limitless user choice on MySpace turned it into such a boundless cacophony of gangsta rapping cat gifs that it was noisy and unusable, and got devoured by Facebook's "express yourself within our clean, limited-styled approach". It's a bit like Apple's thinking: I know you want true multitasking and dancing wallpaper, but that tells me you'll use it if I give it to you, and I know you really don’t want battery life that is measuresd in standby minutes. Since most people aren't willing to have their phone die after 4 hours of use in exchange for more whimsical, athletic wallpaper, their aporoach was to limit you to what most people would really want if they weighed all the tradeoffs and consequences.

[bironran]

"Shhh, child. Mother knows best." That's why a massvie amount of apple mobile devices jailbreak them, why their competitor has aimed enormous traction, right? At least be honest about the it - it's your aesthetic taste that interests you, that'll be offended, not someone else's. If your going to pull a Steve Jobs, just say so. It's a valid (and successful) point of view, but it's not a universal truth.