That article raises a few points, but you also ahve to realize they sue those apps as incentive FOR people to get Gold to play online and such, that's why they're locked to silver members, Microsoft wants the system to be the go-to for everything, online play, etc, so they sell it in a package, not to mention they have the best apps for all that stuff compared to everything else. Roku boxes, etc all kind of suck, not to mention you're paying for the Kinect support, etc