Comment Re:Google can fix it with a hammer. (Score 1) 221
Customers don't give a damn if there is an API. Just a tiny tiny % of geeks care. But that tiny tiny % are developers. And customers like what developers create.
Customers don't know how the magic black boxes work. But they sure benefit from the magic created when those who do know can do their thing.
Also - for a company who "doesn't give a damn about open source", they sure do a lot of it.