Letters to the Editor
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Hyperstitious
For the same reason XBox Live rabidly goes after chip modders. It's their network, they can restrict it or open as they wish.
Now given that Palm is essentially dead and there will be no more Palm OS. Given that Symbian is a niche's niche and will never grow beyond its current base. Given that Pocket/PC-Mobile Windows is a weak underfunded typically crash effort from Redmond, it may be a safe bet that the underlying code for iPhone may wind up being a rather strong player in the smart phone sector. As I've said before, few other major players have as much experience and as much concern with developing software, firmware and hardware at the same time to work in concert as does Apple. This alone will give them a leg up against Microsoft and others who will first have to strong arm hardware vendors and then have to work with them to get code and hardware to work together while digesting Redmond's ever cannibalistic business model that includes force feeding future 'standards' down on business partners. How long before we hear of Redmond's new 'standard' for .Net Framework for Phones? As if that will work out?
Who knows maybe Redmond will punt like it always does and buy a phone company and a cell phone manufacturer.