In what way does Apple's "walled garden" inconvenience you as a user?

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Apple has just as much crapware, so that argument falls flat. The big difference is that the Android Market isn’t censored arbitrarily. I’ve had just as many (actually, more) broken apps on my iPod as on my Droid.

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