SO what would you have liked it to use?
Flash?
Flash works like **** on Mac. At least Silverlight runs well and more efficiently. Hell...if you are going to complain about that..lets talk about how poor iTunes works on Windows platforms vs. OSX.
You are blind in your own hate.
iTunes does not lock you in. It's not a an API or framework or a way to make software/content exclusive to 1 platform. iTunes is a media player and library manager. It doesn't work on Windows ? Tons of other options.
The iTunes store is a different story, but then again, so is all DRM encumbered media. That's another evil. Silverlight is way to lock you into Microsoft approved platforms.
I'm not blind in my hate, I know Microsoft's history, I know their tactics and I've seen first hand the kind of damage they are capable of doing to get themselves on top and stay there, stagnating for years while the market misses tons of innovative opportunity that are locked out.
It's actually more the Microsoft apologists that are blind to what Microsoft is really about. Monopolistic control. They've shown their true colors again and again, and still some of you refuse to see.
(And btw, for the 3D view, there's this thing called WebGL if they really wanted to adhere to an open standard. Bar that, there's VRML that's been around for close to 20 years, ActiveX wasn't needed at all).
Were did I say I used a win mo phone. My phone is a blackberry. You arethe one that seem to change the rules of a smart phone. As they seem to be defined else where as a phone require the 30 data plan. Turn out the os's are blackberry, palm, apples, winmo, android and symb. Those tend to be the smart phones.
But changing the rules because you hate ms and some hate nokia is not valid to throw them out.
I was agreeing with you, in a sarcastic manner. Smartphones mean nothing at all. I know Nokia N series and WinMo are "smartphones", but better yet, I know there is no such thing as a smartphone. All phones do e-mail, text, web, applications. Heck, a lot of dumbphones do tethering too.
So comparing the iPhone to only a small subset you deem "worthy" in order to make it shine is utter bull like you pointed out.
It's others who are confused as to the definition of "default".
The outcry to damn Apple for potentially using Bing is ridiculous.
We're not confused. I know I'm not. "Default with other options" is bad because it helps MS. "An option but not default" is bad because it helps MS. "Not there at all" is the only way I find it acceptable. Again, since you seem to be just trying to push your own agenda : MS wants to control search so that they can lock you into bing. Once that is done, they can use their newfound search monopoly to push you onto other MS products and gain control of the market. See Windows -> IE. See Office. Stiffling innovation and killing competition in order for MS to rake in the cash.
