[d2vid]

Choice with reasonable defaults sounds ideal to me. The suggestion that you HAVE to make all these choices is FUD.

To bring a bit more consumer psychology into the discussion, people love SUVs because they give them the choice to go driving off-road, driving in snow, etc. Those SUV owners aren't then suddenly overwhelmed each morning with the question "Should I commute to work or should I drive to Tahoe?"

Android is a flexible tool that allows you to make choices when you want to make choices.

[rustynails77]

Extend that concept of choice to things like support for FLAC, mkv and a host of other formats. How is this a bad thing? The absence of these things is limiting, but having the choice is bad?

If choice is bad, why not prune the App Store and remove the multiple calendar apps, or the multiple memory mapping tools, navigation tools, etc - and allow one choice only.

[Nerdfest]

I'm quite surprised Apple hasn't. Their motto seems to be "Apple: Freedom from the tyranny of choice!"