IPhone and AT&T

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Christian de Larrinaga <cdel () firsthand net>
Date: August 27, 2007 6:59:09 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Digest 1.1457 for ip

Dave,

Perhaps there is an apparent shared lack of humility to which you are  
referring?

There is locking and there is locking in. Steve Job's "appliance "  
fixation has led to some great innovations but also to the many brick  
walls that Apple has hit over the years.  I do wonder if the desire  
to offer iPhone - the mobile appliance - has led to this deal with  
the devil. I do not so much refer to the locking of the phone to a  
particular network carrier but to the deployment of IP Multimedia  
Subsystem (IMS) style carrier network dependent applications such as  
the much vaunted iPhone's combined Instant Message, SMS, Voice mail  
message browser. If you happen to roam out of ATT firewall will it be  
broken? That is the problem.

Maybe Apple found they could not deploy a fully open (that is  
scalable) IP style architecture for a mobile wireless appliance in  
the time they wanted to do it. However unless they start to move very  
fast either to open up the architecture to open source community to  
fill in the gaps or make the necessary internal investment to do it  
in their own proprietary way they will fail to deliver the open end  
to end capable device they could and what I think users really would  
like.

Locking iPhone to a carrier disguises the really fundamental lock  
down which is the breaking of network transparency for the  
applications on iPhone and this may all have been done to satisfy the  
desire by Mr. Jobs to create iPhone as the mobile "appliance".  
Unfortunately for Apple it has instead run into the wall of scaling  
iPhone to the proportions of the Internet.  Even choosing to partner  
with the quite large company of ATT doesn't give the scale needed to  
address the market. Until Apple can do that it sadly will be offering  
a broken appliance.

best regards,


Christian

Christian de Larrinaga FBCS CITP
Internet Evangelist
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Chairman - Network Brokers


On 26 Aug 2007, at 23:25, ip () v2 listbox com wrote:

> From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: iPhone Unlocking ATT treatens. YOUR EDITORS COMMENTS
> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:59:08 -0400
>
>
> http://blog.iphoneunlocking.com/
>
> I am wondering more and more what the difference is,  if any,
> between Apple and Microsoft. Apple is behaving just like MS not like
> the old Apple I used to like a lot and buy from. In the case of ATT I
> am not surprised. ( I use T-Mobile)
>
> I do have a Windows machine now running Vista and it is not at all
> bad. I may be close to changing my loyalties.
>
> I wonder when the iphone is sold in the rest of the world, especially
> where locking may be illegal or un-enforceable whether ATTAPPLE will
> demand the US Customs seize such phones.
>
> Dave
>
> ps remember I testified in the US vs MS  anitrust trial.


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