As for turn-by-turn GPS, I thought the TomTom app was more than just a “rumor”, isn’t there a report from an actual spokesman out there? And, the rumor is actually that iPhone ver. 2.1 which is beta to developers contains hints that turn-by-turn GPS is coming.

Will developers leave? Some might? It’s awfully soon. Don’t people expect growing pains? I know people set the bar high for Apple, but come on, this is all new territory for everyone here.

Will users leave? Hard to leave when you just signed a 2-year contract. And, predicting users’ behavior two years hence when contracts expire is close to impossible. I mean, last year, there were iPhones bricked, did you hear of lots of users leaving? People forget, and get over the short-term pain, in order to benefit from the long-term gain. I mean, what’s the alternative?

Oh, right Android. Well, it’s normal to put all of our hopes on a service that does not yet exist, but implementation is never as smooth as the idea. Is it going to go any smoother than the iPhone? Do we know whether all the players involved in the OHA even defines “open” in the same way? I mean, Verizon is calling their network “open”, as long as they approve the handset. That’s as “open” as the AppStore, since Apple has to vet the application.

Methinks thou dost protest too much.

I have been a Mac user for 20 years and I have never felt “locked-in.” I find that sometimes the Macs Apple offers don’t meet 100% of my needs, but what product does? How is a company supposed to make a product that satisfies EVERYONE? You think what Apple does is easy? Even MSFT is recognizing that they need to have more control over things. And Linux gives users all the choice in the world but it’s going nowhere on the desktop because no one wants to agree on what is best. That’s nice but most people don’t seem to care.

And I would say that the people who complain the most are the ones who feel they need X, Y and Z when the VAST majority are quite happy with what Apple offers. Look at the people standing in line at the Apple Store for an iPhone four weeks later!

Apple does a lot of things right. Not always. But look how many developers jumped on the iPhone SDK? They recognize this is a new and exciting platform and they want to develop for it. Apple in a sense did recognize the need for 3rd party apps on the phone and in 12 months had a solution. They did open up.

Also the 1984 commercial wasn’t so much about no choice. It was about the only choice being a bad (DOS) choice.