Todd Mundt

Excellent piece from Dennis Haarsager, well worth excerpting:

No doubt about it, Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch continue that company’s record of high class industrial design.  But if Steve Jobs’s taste and focus make for great-looking consumer products, his tightly-integrated hardware/DRM/software business model is more a throwback to the great (and sometimes unfairly labeled) “robber baron” industrialists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  Ironically, this business style is about as far from the culture of the Web as any company active in this space today.  I hope Apple’s design sense goes on forever, but the days for its business model are numbered.

Check it out, fanboys and fangirls.