“You don’t want your phone to be an open platform,”

Bullshit.

Yes, yes you do.

“You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.”

Because phone networks are a series of tubes . And if some joker running Bittorrent on his iPhone clogs up those tubes....

Ahh this isn't even worth mocking. If I can't run 3rd party apps, I don't need an iPhone. It's not worth the asking price... it would need t be a lot cheaper, if nothing else.

Good thing Apple dropped the 'Computer' from their name. Wouldn't want to have mistaken the iPhone for a computer.