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/>So, I bought my iPod Touch, and I’m all fancying around now! The fact is that it is really amazing and I couldn’t expect more for such an astonishing device. I was reading everything about the iPhone Hacks and the applications that needs an unlock in order to run. Then I crossed web sites like appsafari and see how many applications are there for iPhone and the iPod Touch. There is a huge market of applications, I’m not sure if these apps are all free for download or licensed. However, what I need to to do in order to run them is unlock the iPod Touch, which is completely absurd! It’s like having thousands of possibilities, thousands of potential clients, a potential market for your specific device and shouting the door? Why?! Does Apple remember the 90’s? As cosmix writes, Apple is kinda suicidal when it comes to choosing paths and policies. Something that hurts the fantastic mac community, which is similar and close to open source - alias GNU/Linux - community. It’s clear the Steve Jobs have much more close ideas then his nemesis, Bill Gates

The forthcoming release of N810 could turn the iPhone into a dunce! I don’t want to compare a Google’s Android to the iPhone because I don’t know if it’s a direct competitor. In order to avoid that, Apple released the much expected iPhone SDK and for what? Just to keep our iPod Touch and iPhones locked? Where’s the advantage of such policy? I was sceptic about Apple’s behaviour now and I’m urged as an iPod Touch user now! It’s almost sure that I’ll use software to unlock the device and run applications on it. It’s half the value without 3rd party app’s. I will buy music with no DRM from amazon’s on-line store and you know what? I’d like for my iPod touch to have with amazon’s store the integration that I have with iTunes! Why not? Owning an iPod makes me an Apple user? No! That’s why they created an iTunes version for windows (Where is the Linux version?).

I can’t understand why Jobs keeps acting like a total idiot when it comes to locking operating systems and devices, while Apple has gain so much from the open standards every time the company embraced them. Money are good. No one can live without them. But when a company pursues them carelessly makes it’s customers, the vital source of the company, worry. A company’s life is strictly dependant on the sales. If the quality is low and the production sucks, it can survive. If the company doesn’t sale it’s product it will seize to exist.

So now, I have to hack my device to make it do what I want to! How great! Some of you may think: “Hey you knew that before getting the gadget!” well, yes I knew it, but I needed an iPod and decided to go for the big ride. I already ordered my next mobile phone, which against my former decisions, it will not be the iPod but something slightly less sophisticated. I didn’t want to wait for N810 to hit the Greek market. I dislike it’s design anyway, but I could try it out because it’s Linux and the SDK is already there.