Yes I&#x27;ve owned Newtons, Palm Pilots&#x2F;Handsprings, Treos and XDA&#x2F;SPVs all at launch. All had resistive screens, all were universally awful. The stupid styluses were rubbish.<p>You are confusing what is merely a paradigm (in this case WIMP) with what <i>you</i> think is a modern OS. Tell me, why do I need file system access? Do I really need to manually file away thing in this day and age? Why can I see MP3 files when I&#x27;m trying to open JPGs? A phone is a <i>personal device</i>, why does it need multi-user access? Why does it need terminal access, a relic of the pre GUI era? Any counter argument that you come up with I can pretty much guarantee will be an edge case.<p>Are you referring to the 30%? Go to any other retailer and see if you get that deal. Approval is arbitrary? Perhaps, but it does keep the malware count down. You do know that Google do it to, right? So do Microsoft. Other than that, running your own content delivery and payment system isn&#x27;t cheap, and neither is managing it, but hey, you keep clutching at those straw men...