Microsoft Moves For Long Haul; Apple Needs To Take Notes, Pt. 4

 
By Chris A. Heidelberg, III, Publisher & Executive Producer
 
    The cloud based iPhone with cellular service would be a blow to telecomms, who definitely want to control the web, because the iPhone would be an open phone and allow Apple to be independent since Microsoft has said its not bidding on spectrum space so that means that Microsoft will be working with the telecomms and cable firms. Apple should allow third party applications and reserve the right to approve them all just like Facebook does and end this stupid cat and mouse game. This is wasted energy. Apple has been in the phone business for less than six months and is acting worse than Microsoft and the worst telecomm over opened iPhones. The deal with AT&T has helped AT&T with its horrible EDGE service and Apple is getting its image killed trying to battle their own customers just like the music and video industries. Now isn't that ironic, Apple the maverick pro-consumer brand is acting totally corporate? I am an Apple fan but you cannot make this stuff up, its real. Apple needs to modify that deal or prepare for the day that deal ends quickly because Apple needs a 3G phone and it needs a better network.
   
    Besides let AT&T enforce the open phone issue. It's their phone lines they know what people are doing and they should kill phone service of people who decide to go open or dare I say sue. Obviously, if a phone goes open, the other telecomms could kill the iPhone on its line. There are only two companies left how hard could it be. However, this issue points out how important it is for Carter Rules to be extended to cell phones so that the US can join the rest of the world with open phones and cheaper prices and more access. For readers who do not know the Carter Rules forced phone companies to allow people to buy their own home phones or opened phones from non-AT&T approved manufacturers before the split of AT&T in 1984 when everyone paid monthly fees for phones I know it sounds so 20th Century but this is how it was until a manufactured sued after the phone companies used the same excuse the Apple and many telecomms used about the device being bad for the network. Ha! The courts did not buy this line then and people are not buying it now and Apple needs to stop carrying water for AT&T, who I actually like better now, Apple is just a manufacturer. You don't see Research in Motion, Motorola or even Nokia doing this with their popular lines of phones like the Blackberry, the Razr or the Nseries. Apple needs to tell AT&T that this issue is hurting Apple and will hurt sales for everyone and take AT&T to court eventually while developing a truly open 3G phone. Apple was right to want control over its phones the telecomms do not make phones and should not be allowed to dictate any more to consumers with closed phones which are not legal in most European nations. Can the US please get with it, do you know we are barely in the top twenty as far as being fully digitally connected and we do not have HD yet either? South Korea is number one if you are interested,