[throw310822]

I've also given some thoughts to why Microsoft ships (shipped?) for decades stuff like notepad instead of some advanced text editor. My hunch was that as a platform provider you don't want to occupy the ground that should be left to third party developers- you need them to fill your platform with applications. So you provide the absolute basic and let others compete to produce the advanced apps.

[m463]

I think at some point apple prevents app store developers from "duplicating functionality" or something like that.