What sold the iPod and made it popular was the superior user
interface. That's what is selling the iPhone now, with or without some
features and cheaper prices of other phones on the market.
Yes, Apple needs to tread lightly and not alienate its users, or
prospective users, but so does any other company who wants to
remain in business. And if you are silly enough to buy the first
release of a new technology, regardless of who makes it, then you're
silly enough to be grateful Apple bothered to return $100 of your
venture money. How many other companies would do that for you?
Most new products under warranty are discouraged from being
hacked, since you have a good chance of killing your new toy forever.
No one can prevent you from hacking, but do you really expect them
to support your whoops when something bad happens? I'd like to
see Apple be more TiVo oriented with the hacks, but that's its
decision (and ATT, perhaps) and you'll have to live with it. If you
hacked it, and you applied an update and something broke, you
played and you paid.
I'm so tired of Apple fearful people spouting the same old same old.
Apple makes overpriced products, the users are cult-like drones who
will buy anything made by Apple, blah blah blah blah blah. Stop the
insanity and try to get a clue. Most people don't have money to
waste. They want quality for a fair price. What a surprise that is.
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