Trying to foster? No. Fostering? Yes. What Apple intends to achieve with their policies is an interesting but academic discussion. Policies, laws, and features can have all have plenty of bizarre side effects.

For instance, I'll bet ya that allowing people to share their moods on Facebook leads to measurably different and likely less accurate mood graphs.

One of my favourite apps has a prominent duck[1]. The BubbleFishyMon plugin for gkrellm has a 'fishtank', where the various happenings have meaning - the fish represent network traffic, the bubbles are cpu load, the water level is RAM usage, and the duck... is a duck!

You know you're close to swapping when the duck is upside-down...

[1] http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/-lOiPGHXH3k/hqdefault.jpg (a little overlarge)