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While there's little in these announcements that interests me, the Mac Air was the only thing I was waiting for and it's too thin and light for me, I find the accusation of arrogance a little difficult to understand.

Apple sold the Touch as an iPod with wireless technology so that you can buy music without the need to tether to an iTunes installation. Safari was included, probably because they could. So people asked for email which was an obvious extension that for some reason Apple excluded from the original package, probably to differentiate more strongly the Touch and the iPhone.

So Apple provide it and ask for a nominal sum, something like 5% of the US purchase price. Hardly seems unreasonable to me.

And then the iPhone. One of my colleagues has one and more or less all of the new features that have been added, he already has through hacks. However, the point here is that Apple looked at what people are doing with the product and added that functionality into the official release.

So there you have two examples from yesterday where Apple have listened to what people wanted and responded in a positive way to those requests.

Contrast that with Microsoft. How long have people been asking for a perfectly reasonable feature like the close button actually closing an application? And what is the response?

Or Sony with the PSP and homebrew apps? Now that you can use a Pandora battery to hack a PSP Sony are more or less stuffed. But if they'd listened to the market and taken the best of what the hacker community had to offer, I suspect they'd still have had to waste a lot less time and effort closing holes the hackers open up and be in competition with the DS Lite instead of being taken to the cleaners by Nintendo.

So we have Apple's arrogance. Sony's stupidity and Microsoft's ignorance. If those are the choices, give me arrogant any day.