menk

iPhone Lockup and Apple's True Colors

Having bought an iPhone (two actually - one for my wife) I fail to understand why all the whining about the fact that Apple wants to retain some control of the iPhone to ensure that the user experience is good.

I ditched my Treo for the iPhone and have been extremely happy. The phone works as advertised (perhaps better). Having had the crash prone and sluggish Treo which was unusable without adding software for everything from e-mail to a decent UI, I am happy to abandon that user self service model of phone integration. With the iPhone, I don't need the ability to dump a bunch of crap on the phone making it unstable and unsupportable for the vendor.

At some point, Apple may allow third party apps on the phone but given the only one you mentioned that is even useful (iChat native client) I applaud Apple's approach to keeping the system closed, safe and supportable.

If you want to load a phone with cruft get a treo. If you want a phone that works and is light years ahead of the rest of the industry by an iPhone.

To all you whiners. STFU

It's a phone not a Mac so get