I still can’t believe the fact that it is just NOT possible to load an application inside an iPhone unless it’s blessed (read: digitally signed) by Apple, and yes, you read it right, not even for testing purposes, which means that if you want to start writing some code for the iPhone, you have to a) buy a $99 testing certificate, and b) buy an extra iPhone compatible with that extra certificate.
But the story continues….

Apple seems to have a list of things that they are not going to bless, like for example Porn, or “Bandwidth Hog” applications, and there is also the “unforeseen” category, which translated to plain English means “anything that we don’t like at all or we consider bad for our business model”.

I happen to believe that protecting the user experience as much as you can is a good thing, and that is mainly the reason because Mac OS is more enjoyable than any other OS out there, no discussion there, but when a company starts telling me what I am allowed to run (or not) on a device that i OWN, I think that something is really wrong. In my particular case, I don’t own an iPhone (and not even planning to own one, mostly because I use Nextel, and I wouldn’t change it for anything), for the contrary i own a Motorola headset, and i can load any application on it, or even write my own if I feel like.

No matter how much I love Apple and their products, I think that freedom of choice is one of the most valuable things that our society must protect, and while I read a lot of forum / blog posts by the so called “Apple fanboys” saying things like “if you don’t like it, don’t buy it” I just don’t want to believe what could happen if a company with this way of thinking becomes the market leader.

I have yet to see the evolution of this whole thing, but right now this just makes me re-think if some other eternally blamed companies are really sooooo evil after all…