“LOL! Awesome satire. “Obvious”, “true” “off base” “hate” “untruths” “spouted”. Very nice! Well played, sir!”

I like your site a lot but calm down on being so defensive, downright rude to people. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, right? That’s why you host this site—to get opinions and have a dialog, no?

Yes, they are copying the Iphone in alot of ways,…however, they make very good points…Apple is being stupid in alot of issues, and that is not alowing the iphone to truly show its potential

LOL! Awesome satire. “Obvious”, “true” “off base” “hate” “untruths” “spouted”. Very nice!

Well played, sir!

(I don’t care a wit about companies, just products. A couple years ago, I was Microsoft from console to desktop to phone, now I’m mostly Apple. If Microsoft pulls out a Win8, WinPho 7, Xbox 720 fully-integrated trifecta, maybe I’ll switch back in a couple years — but they’ll have to earn their love).

Even more ironic — I was with WMExperts when they bought their Xperia X1a. Any guesses how expensive that phone was? How successful in the US compared to the iPhone 2G? Ballmer needs to spend less time talking about Apple, and more time finding a product picker to take the reins at Microsoft…

It’s become quite obvious what your true feelings regarding Apple’s competitors are. You certainly aren’t lovers. Ballmer was not “proven wrong” about the iPhone’s lack of success at a $500 price point. He was right. This article is off base as well. I like to come here for my iPhone news, but the hate and untruths spouted about Palm and MS make it hard. This is mostly a good site, just grow up a little.

We’re lovers, not haters, and if you can’t tell a post with a big honking Ballmer tongue blue screened all over it isn’t intended to be prankish, well, then… don’t know what else to do for ya

And a “gold rush” is the least of .NET’s unappeal :p

(The rest of the industry would love to copy the iPhone’s lock in. Big business loves lock in. They just don’t have the ecosystem and iPod market behind them — don’t be fooled into thinking anyone out there is truly non-Evil).

I don’t think they are trying to copy the restrictive nature of the device.

As for Jason’s response, what MSFT did 2 years ago is not relevant compared to what they are doing now. The .NET Compact Framework gives you quite a bit of flexibility. It just isn’t as appealing as there’s no gold rush.

That’s the perfect response to that question.

Most of it seems aimed at protecting the Carriers and media providers. But now that DRM is slowly on the way out, what other possible reason other than Carrier demands remain for the restrictive nature of Apple?

How many would pay full price for an iPhone to be free from a carrier restriction (assuming there was a choice of compatible networks)?

How much cheaper would carrier plans be if they did not have to recover the cost of the device?

I meant, why didn’t the MS Treo 700 run my Palm Treo 700 apps if interoperabilty has been Microsoft’s big concern?

Open your Exchange email platform to make it more interoperable.

Why did none of YOUR apps work on the Treo 700 as it came out and tried to eclipse my Palm Treo 700? Or am I the only one who has a memory going back more than two years…

How’s about the fact that most of your own apps don’t even run across the yet-to-be-fully-understood MULTIPLE mobile OSs. Where was Excel on my Q?

Seriously dude…

As in, lock down the SDK and declare jailbreaking a crime.

As in, only people with a Mac can develop for it.

As in, carrier exclusivity and threatening of fire and brimstone for imitators.

Lastly, AT&T is encouraging interoperability in this post, which implies that they want Apple to be more open.

Read the article next time before you try to post hate.