Ambrosia: Committed to making iToner work

My guess is that in a year or so, or definitely when the 2 year contract runs out, just about every one of these iPhones will be modded. What would you really have to lose since you could either go to another carrier or just buy another phone. With that reality out there someone needs to put a countdown clock up showing when the two year contract date will be up on the iPhone...

Apple needs to provide a SDK for developers. I've read somewhere that they aren't doing it because the next version of the iPhone won't be compatible with the current chipset. So they don't want to have software out there that won't port from one system to the next.

Do you believe that? Hmmm... There is the old adage that goes... Give the customer what they want, or someone else will.

Apple has done a great job of capturing the imagination of the Market... but can they keep it?

Forget 50 Cent, Rihanna, and Timbaland; I want to make my own ringtones! I want to use Garage Band, Logic, Soundtrack, and all that other great Apple software to create a ringtone of my own. Doesn't Apple encourage me to buy and use their products to extend and share my creativity?

But I can't do it with my Mac and my iPhone. Why ever not? Seriously, this is a win-win: let me be creative with my expensive Mac hardware and software, and let me run it on my equally expensive iPhone. Apple wins by selling me profit-making products, I win by being able to create my own stuff.

Maybe use of iTunes content is governed by the RIAA, but there is no doubt that I shouldn't be able to make use of my own inventiveness.

(This reminds me of DAT tapes, where the RIAA tacked on a licensing fee to each and every tape sold, regardless of whether the tape would be used for novel content or content of one of their artists'.)

I'll wait for the 1.1.1 unlock, because I WANT to use my iPhone as a portable disk, ready for using any 3rd party apps, against Steve's wishes.

as it has been said, apple did say about the 3rd party apps and phone lock before hand.
im not in usa, so i dont have iphone. and now that im reading how its strongly locked interms of sim and apps (i tend to travel around and i am not willing to pay the insane prices of roaming), i decided to go with something like htc instead.

simple and logic

I'm of the opinion that this is all a rather clever way of upping the baseline for iPhone security, gaguing dev enthusiasm, and gaining some early metrics on 3rd party app use.

Apple releases the iPhone, devs crack it, put apps on it, make ringtones, etc. Apple fills in those cracks ,shores up the holes, finds out that devs want to make 3rd party apps, and uses these early months as a sort of "Wild West" beta.

Now, Apple knows what they need to know, have filled in the easy holes, and can provide an "approved dev" SDK with a process to properly bless software. By closing the easy holes, they prevent unsigned software. By providing the SDK (soon, I should suspect), they control the dev process and basic quality level.

It's a nerd PR disaster, but really, that's small compared to the userbase as a whole.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a40BQ8ThsTc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eengadget%2Ecom%2F2007%2F09%2F30%2Fiphone%2Dprotest%2Dvid%2Duses%2Dapples%2Down%2Dwords%2Dto%2Dsupport%2Dthe%2Dcrazy%2F#

I'd like to point out that while everyone laments the loss of the third-party apps, I had plenty installed and I had to reboot my iPhone at least once a day because I'd end up with a launchpad that was completely blank. I also had third-party apps crash a lot.

Let's let the damn firmware get stabilized and get an SDK, rather than concentrating on getting haxxies back.

It amazes me to listen to people complain about "I want to use my iPhone on whatever carrier I want!"

People fail to realize there are really only two major carriers in the US this would be possible with anyhow - T-Mobile and AT&T. Apple went after GSM for a reason - it gets them the biggest reach across multiple countries. AFAIK, there aren't a lot of CDMA carriers in Europe...

Why not complain about the things that are really wrong with the iPhone? For instance - I want my copy / paste back! I miss that from my BlackBerry. I have no intentions of hacking my phone. I bought an iPhone for the same reason I switched to Mac OS X from Linux - I want things to "just work". I spend my day writing code and futzing around with a Linux-based product. When I get home, I don't want to tweak anymore. I want to surf the web, check my email, etc without having to open a command line to configure my wireless (for example)!

Are the same bitter people going to comment about how evil Apple is on every post? I'm glad the vocal representation is a minority among the perfectly content iPhone users.

Get over yourself and the sour grapes you're munching on. You whine more than emo goth kids.

Lets think about this...
Pros:
The BEST smart phone ever made. Sells like crazy. Huge success for apple.

Cons:
1. Completely closed off to 3rd party software.
2. Very expensive...for two months.
3. You are not allowed to make ringtones, a very popular feature with virtually all cell phones.
4. Forced to sign a 2 year contract on a NON subsidized phone??
5. Apple promises great new feautures will be released in the future, then gives us the DRM wifi store and a couple of features that should have been there from day one, or realistically a bug fix that they call a new feature.


I'm an apple fan and I love my iPhone, but the attitued/answer people have when they say "it could be worse, buy a Windows Mobile phone!" is just stupid. Yes, it could be worse but more importantly, it COULD BE SOOOO MUCH BETTER.