So, yesterday I typed up a post on my thoughts about the iPhone. I typed it up for my friends, the people that read this blog. It was linked off a few sites(you can find them in the ping backs on the post). I was surprised it got attention at all, I hacked it out in 30 minutes.
Let me explain a few things about that post. Largely it was an opinion article. It was largely an experiential article. That is to say, I have experience with the iPhone and that experience has led me to an opinion. Its not wrong or right, it simply is my opinion. I don’t expect it to be yours so we have no disagreement here. Well you may, but I don’t care about that.
Also, I am not going to partake in any iPhone V the world flame war. It simply won’t happen. Why? This isn’t Slashdot and if it were, I would just watch the banter, I don’t partake in it. Even though I find the banter of Slashdot to be the majority of the fun 
Immediately after I posted it I wanted to post a follow up because I didn’t express in detail all my findings about the iPhone. At times, you need to decide what makes the cut and what doesn’t due to length considerations and time. I am not a professional blogger so I don’t have multiple hours to scrub my post to every last line.
One point I don’t think I made well is that I have only been using this little Verizon phone for a few days. This is important to note because I have been using the iPhone minus the phone for a year +. I don’t claim to know all the ins and outs to the iPhone, I didn’t buy the missing manual and I don’t go to iPhone user groups. If you can do something with it I missed, its because it wasn’t immediately intuitive or no one told me you could do it. Nothing malicious here, just lack of knowing. I don’t consider hacking or jailbreaking the iPhone to be a good solution to opening up the device.
I know Verizon locks down devices and I know they use DRM on their apps(well at least I think they do). Again, its not the DRM I care about, its the DRM getting in my way. My charge is, essentially all DRM gets in your way eventually.
And for all the Apple zealots, remember, I said the iPhone was incredible and it really is. Its changed the world of smartphones forever and that is a really great thing. Its just that, I am not going to flame with you about it.