That no one is forcing me to use it is true, but completely irrelevant to the discussion.
> that will probably leave the iPhone in the dust within about 6-12 months
If I had a dollar for every time an open source advocate claimed incorrectly that their preferred solution would leave its proprietary competitor in the dust in "just a few months," I'd have a lot of money. Not so much in the opposite direction.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't open source software come to dominate every single industry except perhaps defense? Apple has some nice stuff but it's proprietary nature is a throwback to the 80s.
I'd argue that much embedded systems code on consumer electronics devices was probably compiled with gcc.
Of my consumer electronics devices, about half are based on open source (appletv, nexusone, roku, linksys access point)... I don't know about my toaster, microwave, etc.
My blackberry is not, and I doubt things like tvs and dvd players are, but every day there are more benefits to companies using open source. The main threat to this is the GPLv3 license, but fortunately that's not getting too much traction.
> that will probably leave the iPhone in the dust within about 6-12 months
If I had a dollar for every time an open source advocate claimed incorrectly that their preferred solution would leave its proprietary competitor in the dust in "just a few months," I'd have a lot of money. Not so much in the opposite direction.