SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in news:479931fd$0$84189
$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net:

> If they had a card
> slot on the iPhone and the Touch, and Bluetooth on the Touch, and opened
> it up to developers, they could sell a lot of these into vertical
> applications that are now developing custom products, or basing their
> products on the Windows Mobile devices which are more ope

That has NEVER been part of the Apple business model....Open access. They
could have had Bill Gates' corporate ass if they had opened up the Apple II
years ago. They had computers that were easy to use by anyone and they
BLEW IT with corporate greed trying to make their computers into a
continuous revenue stream like a SELLphone has become. Micro$oft said,
here it is, here's an SDK, make something out of it......and the 3rd party
developers certainly did....even to a much harder-to-use, less user
friendly system that everyone bought because it has LOTS OF SOFTWARE and
lots of that was, and still is, FREEWARE. To see how important and good
working that is, just check Bill Gates' checkbook balance!

Apple will never learn that lesson......