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They can keep it up until they are ruled to be a monopoly - I'm not sure that will happen to them but when it does then they can't act the way they do now without consequences.

I think it'd be a little different if they didn't lock down the device so that their App Store is the only (supported/permitted) way to install applications. If it was only "you sell through us, you pay", that'd be one thing; as it stands, it's "you want to run on these devices that our customers bought, paid for, and own, you pay us too".

Outrage? Hyperbole much? It's an article humourously linking the mechanical control of Apple to Asimov's three laws of robotics.

This is the first time I've seen something written in the passive voice being referred to as 'outrage'.