I think that Apple is just being to greedy. They are no different from any other big company who wants to make the largest profits at the expense much about their customers wants/needs. The history of the industry has shown that this stringent control that Apple is attempting is not healthy for any computer. There are just so many hackers and users and just one Apple. Windows is still trying to deal with hackers, viruses and spyware and will continue to do so for a while. Pretty soon, as Apple becomes more popular it may have to face similar issues with its OS.