Mr. Jobs’ words about opening up Mobile OS X to 3rd-party developers:

You don’t want your phone to be an open platform, you need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.

First of all, assuming the techincal implications of this are true (because they simply aren’t), whose fucking bone-headed idea was it to tie the phone up specifically to Cingular in the first place? The only feature I can see that is directly tied to Cingular’s network would be the visual voice-mail feature - unless another bone-headed decision was made to even use Cingular’s network for connecting to the internet as a whole (which is highly unlikely).

I suggest Jobs take a look at what people actually write for the other OS platforms. What’s usually written are productivity tools (password storage, calculators and converters, etc), NOT as much for connectivity. And either way, those kinds of software don’t need to have access to Cingular’s network. If ever they needed to go “online” all they need is to access the internet via WiFi - which doesn’t and shouldn’t have to be tied to one network.

Also, there’s the glaring and obvious fact that nobody asked for Apple to tie these “features” to any one network. If the world’s collective memory serves itself right, didn’t everyone want the phone to be unlocked, and open to any carrier?

Please Mr. Jobs, isn’t it enough that you’re arrogantly telling us how we should use our phones - now you want to take us for idiots as well?

Seriously, someone should file an anti-trust case against these guys for monopoly. I’m baffled as to why Microsoft is the only one being scrutinized for such “practices” - when Apple seem to have been doing it since the release of the iPod.

post updated on January 14, 2007 @ 12:02PM