Comments on: Apple iPhone: OUT for 2009 on Principle

By: PhoneBoy

PhoneBoy — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:02:06 +0000

I also don’t like a phone that doesn’t have a proper SIM unlock method. What you have to do on iPhone is against the EULA to be sure and potentially dangerous with Apple constantly “undoing” the good work of the jailbreaking community.

A normob may not care about any of this crap, but I am not a normob. I want my phone to be open without having to violate the EULA and my Apple warranty.

I recognize that normobs are gonna be all over the “managed,” “safe” environment that Apple provides. Me? Not so much.

By: spg

spg — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:03:22 +0000

this is just one more reason why i believe that the ultimate pocket device that will be used for phone calls and all sorts of computer functions that will win in the end will have evolved down from EVDO and UMTS connected laptops via netbooks to a pocket sized device. they will not have evolved up from cell phones that are sold and controlled by phone companies and there partners. the end result will be a device of similar size and function but sold on a very different philosophy/business model.

the real revolution in mobile data will begin only after wireless links(through the cell phone networks or WiMAX) to the internet on laptops overtake wired and hot spots connections. that is when real computers will shrink to pocket size.

By: Jonathan Jensen

Jonathan Jensen — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:14:41 +0000

I think the point here is sure you can jailbreak an iPhone but that’s a minority interest & is not what Apple intends. For Normobs it is a ‘managed’ environment – but for them that probably works. It’s only us ‘geeks’ who dislike the aura of control!

By: Lonnie Lazar

Lonnie Lazar — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:00:19 +0000

It’s a popular misconception that Apple is this draconian monster, jealously guarding its cache of baubles ill-gotten lucre from the back of its cave behind a walled garden. Except it’s not. Leaving aside for a moment the fact there are over 10,000 apps available in the AppStore, many of which have nothing to do with flatulence or games or ringtones at all, the iPhone has been jailbroken since weeks after its initial debut in the summer of ’07. Every single firmware release is newly jailbroken within days of becoming public. There is nothing preventing any cocoa developer in the world from creating an iPhone app that cannot be loaded onto the iPhone or iPod Touch, notwithstanding the inscrutable caprice of Steve Jobs’ gatekeeping henchpeople.

By: Jonathan Jensen

Jonathan Jensen — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:16:01 +0000

The closed & restrictive nature of everything Apple does has always been a problem for me. However there’s no denying Apple deliver an excellent customer experience in other ways. I guess it’s probably more of a philosophical issue for me! However I still don’t own a single Apple device (unlike the rest of the family)! Maybe the only way to deliver an excellent customer experience is to be restrictive otherwise you lose control of the customer experience. I love Nokia S60 but no App Store & it’s hardly user friendly for Normobs to go & hunt for new apps.