>>>>>>> Apple maybe a giant in innovation. But Apple iPhone App approval process woes always hit the top stories. App process is of course a closed platform. Apple has to restructure it processes to get rid of these frequent complaints.

This passage is quite hilarious. I read that Salon article earlier and thought the person who wrote it was expecting a bit much.

She said: “I have been the owner of multiple iPhones…My starter phone lasted for a little more than a year, until the battery got old and the phone, which had never behaved well, really began to act up. The next one wasn’t around long: I dropped it; it shattered. My third, a fussbudget sort, got a little bit damp and refused to work. Now, I am on my fourth iPhone, whose screen cracked weeks ago…”

I don’t know what she’s expecting…nobody has ever claimed the iPhone is shock- and waterproof.

Many bloggers have put Steve Jobs up there with Mussolini, Hitler, Castro and Idi Amin because the iPhone was made a closed platform run exclusively by Apple. It seems nobody was told that before they purchased their iPhones and apparently, no business has the right to do that. Especially a successful business. The bloggers suspect collusion, illegalities and worse. Apple is singlehandedly destroying the smartphone industry. The iPhone platform is a couple of years old and holds a tiny 15% of market share and yet it has suddenly become a monopolistic evil empire threatening freedoms everywhere despite there are at least a half-dozen mobile platforms anyone can freely go to.

It’s always been fun to curse at successful people or enterprises, hoping that they’ll fall down into the muck with the rest of the losers. Take that, you arrogant SOB. Join the muddy crowd.

Android is the underdog’s favorite OS now and the up-and-coming king of mobile OSes. You’re allowed to do anything, run anything and change anything and therefore it is the perfect OS. All the underdogs love Android which can do no wrong. And so, within a few years because of its total openness, Android will control about 80% of the smartphone business leaving all others behind. And best of all, it doesn’t have Steve Jobs behind it and an Apple logo on it. Ooohh, Apple is so scared.

Yes, it is true, more competition is better for us all. That is why Apple is not using it’s market share to prevent others from selling Andriod, WINCE, Symbian phones. If they did then you could have a legitimate argument. If you need further proof look at the iPods as an example.  Apple garners 80% market share in the MP3 players  yet they didn’t go to the retailers and forbide them from selling the Zune.    

Mike to get to the second item, which is under delivered, you bring a quoat from Apple, “internet communicator”, how has this not true?  We are able to browse the Internet like we experience on our desktop. Not letting Flash, Google Voice, Slingbox are a small fraction of what makes the internet. So No I don’t agree with your assertion that Apple has under delivered.    

Now I am clear on how Apple operates, and it is under these conditions that I based my purchase of the iPhone. The above items would be a nice to have but not including them does not take away from what Apple has delivered or from what they have said. Neither of thier actions have countered the message they continue to hammer, which is a tightly controled hardware and software make for a better experience.  You can agree with the message or not, but this is how Apple operates.

Stop using the iPhone if you are using one, if you don’t own one stop whining about what Apple is doing. Please remember it’s their store and they can do what they like. If you think you are better, produce your own phone and then create an app store and market them to the world..

I guess it’s sorta like trying to use a FORD engine in a Chevy chassis… but no one gripes about that sorta thing.

Buy a Nokia and enjoy… I’ll keep my iPhone. BTW, the dropped calls may be ATT’s fault…

Yes, the iPod also dominates its market segment, is in the hands of millions of consumers, and yet does NOT recieve the same amount of criticism. However, the iPhone is a FAR more complex product with additional complications (eg., the network is out of Apple’s control), so it’s BOUND to have additional problems — and complaints.

If you kill your neighbor you will be arrested for murder. (hopefully)

If you jail break your iphone, you will be ex-communicated from the church of Apple by Pope Steve the 1st. (Your warranty voided.)

Additionally Pope Steve wants to then send you to the inquisition where you will be questioned and I assume ultimately executed or jailed for life. (Pope Steve’s stance is that jail breaking your iphone is an act of terrorism.)