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Apple KNOWS their customers are... - people who DON’T want their digital-life experience degraded by some company’s grubby fingers.

Go into comedy because you are hilarious!

Apple's policies on what software you can have on your iPhone is really not a company degrading your experience, is it?.

You said — Apple’s policies on what software you can have on your iPhone is really not a company degrading your experience, is it?.

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LOL..., 50,000 apps on the iPhone and the consumers have a “degraded experience”.... you’re really funny there... :-)

Just because Apple makes the developers for iPhone apps conform to certain things in order to keep the iPhone working, working right and not degrading the experience that the consumer has — doesn’t mean that the “developers whining” about creating *anything* is somehow degrading the user experience...

Heck! I remember one developer that was selling his app for $1,000 on the iPhone that did nothing but say that if you bought his app and were able to afford it, you were “something special”... LOL... (the app did *absolutely nothing* except that...)

Apple *killed it* in short order... it’s no longer there.

I guess that’s the kind of “user experience” you would prefer that Apple “let go through”... :-)

"Apple's policies on what software you can have on your iPhone is really not a company degrading your experience, is it?"

They kept the corral tight for a reason. There had never been anything like the App Store for a cell phone, and the potential for trouble was significant. Security issues, privacy issues, support issues, user-experience issues, network issues, battery issues, legal issues, regulatory issues, partner issues, interoperability issues, compatibility issues, even social issues like porn... all these things had to be watched very carefully.

An example of how things can go bad in a hurry due to software on a cell phone was on display immediately after the iPhone 3G's introduction. An oversight in the phone's networking software resulted in it requesting full bandwidth from 3G towers. It had not been an issue before, nor had it been an issue in testing, because nothing like the iPhone 3G had been seen in any numbers in the field before. But with its big launch and the sudden upsurge in network usage, the 3G network was overwhelmed, and the towers would summarily drop calls. A software revision was quickly issued, but this serves to underscore the importance and risk of software in a cell phone, especially a popular one. It is entirely possible to bring a whole cell network to its knees. It's why AT&T is taking its time with tethering support-- they need to be sure they can handle the flood of new usage.

Bottom line: the policies you speak of were put in place for very sound reasons. Some will ease with time (already have, in fact), others will remain iron-clad, and thank goodness for that.

Tell me: what applications can I get for my Motorola Razr?
Answer: next to none, what exists is crippled and painful to obtain.

True, Apple is getting a lot of flack for refusing some apps - but they’re resolving the issues, and what’s there is orders of magnitude better than other non-iPod platforms.

Tell me: what phone or MP3 platform has a _wider_ range of apps available, demonstrating superiority to Apple’s admittedly imperfect policies?