said by clickie:Aside...aside...aside. That is exactly my point, although I did a poor job of enumerating it. Apple is no saint, and the 3.0 software is crippled. But what I had intended on saying is that it isn't an outright replacement of the phone OS with something that displays a big red V and moves menu buttons around to increase the probability of hitting the data service to incur a $2 data charge for 31kb of data.
Likewise for disabling Bluetooth, disabling file transfer of photos. However, despite its faults, the iPhone is a very big first step in the right direction of getting the carrier's sticky fingers out of the phones.
They don't do this on any smartphones. I've never seen an OS replaced on a BlackBerry nor a Windows Mobile phone. They did do this on the handheld phones (the Verizon BREW software was a terrible offender) but not on their smartphone-type devices ... the ones that would compete with the iPhone that is.
