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My Samsung YP-MT6Z music player has been a fun little device to have around. It plays MP3's and Ogg Vorbis files, has an FM tuner, can record from that tuner on a timer, can record from line-in and a voice mic, and is powered by a single AA battery that makes up the majority of its size and weight. It also likes to corrupt its firmware fairly often, typically whenever the battery needs to be changed.

Wired magazine ran a couple of articles recently where they painted Apple and its proprietary vendor lock-in business models not just in a positive light, but in a congratulatory tone so nauseatingly over-the-top that I can't just stand by and ignore it. The articles in question basically centered around how breaking all of "the silicon valley rules" of getting ahead in the tech sector made Apple succeed. The comparisons with other companies were just ridiculous as well. Let's see some examples.