I am an iPhone owner, I love my Phone because it is one of the best phones I have ever used. Is it perfect? Hell no. Never will be perfect.
But the 1.1.1 update has as expected set loose some of the lamest outrage I have seen in the tech community.
Did Apple ever suggest, let alone promise, that the iPhone would be an open platform? That it would be the catalyst for a million open source powered geeks to frolic in?
NOPE!
Never said so, never promised, never suggested.
Yet we have tech pundit after tech pundit smacking them for being so cold hearted as to push an update that closes the loophole hackers were taking advantage of.
Remember most of the hacks were taking advantage of a nasty buffer overflow bug in the iPhone’s OS. That is a security issue that they had to close.
Sure they are also protecting their revenue streams and contractual obligations to AT&T. Welcome to capitalism.
Every idiot that is griping now, knew full well they could continue living in open iPhone nirvana by NOT updating to 1.1.1
But they did update, because despite their desire for openness they want some of the lovingly crafted improvements Apple was pushing out.
Apple warned us all, do NOT mess with the iPhone’s firmware or you might end up with a brick after the next upgrade.
A lot of tech companies push updates that they know will break things, but never say a word. As a friend of mine explained when he worked heavily with Cisco routers, Cisco called bugs he found undocumented features after the fact.
Apple warned everyone, but now they are whining like babies. Oh my god Apple did what they said they were going to do! Oh my god, how dare they!
Get over yourselves already. You chose to play with fire and got burned, even after being warned that you would get burned.
Can’t wait to here Leo Laporte go ballistic over this, just as Russell Beattie did.
