BBC NEWS | Technology | Apple iPhone warning proves true

[Andy Tarpinian]

On Oct 1, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Peter Korsten wrote:

> Andy Tarpinian schreef:
>
>> or that it's awesome. It's certainly the best device I have used in
>> the category of smart/pda/blackberry phones. Sure there are things I
>> would like added but I'm happy enough with the pure quality of use
>> that anything else will be icing on the cake. It's next gen thinking
>> on how these devices should work.
>
> Oh, most definitely. But it's a double-edged sword. We're all  
> Faust, and
> Mephistopheles is offering us the iPhone. Just sign here, please.

Again though at least for the US I haven't seen any behavior that is  
that different than the way the market works here. You always get  
locked down into contracts. It's unfortunate but it's the way it is.  
What apple has the ability to do here is get people excited about the  
devices they use, when the devices become more important than the  
networks I think you will see more freedom, but unfortunately they  
have to play within the system for now, they want everyone begging  
them to make their devices available on other networks. This may be a  
stretch but Ironically it's sort of like what Microsoft did with IBM,  
freed the software from the hardware, maybe apple can help free the  
hardware/software from the networks.