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iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them (GNU/FSF Press)iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them (GNU/FSF Press)Posted Jul 16, 2007 21:57 UTC (Mon) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)In reply to: iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them (GNU/FSF Press) by peterc Parent article: iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them (GNU/FSF Press)
It's worse than that. Unlike every other GSM phone I've heard of, the iPhone apparently looks for proprietary Apple-only identity/authentication servers and visual voicemail servers. The latter is fair enough as it's a new feature, but still a lockin - the former is gratuitous lockin just because they want to control the entire stack, from phone to server to network.
The iPhone is far more proprietary and closed than almost any other phone out there - even basic GSM phones can load Java games, and smartphones running Symbian, Windows Mobile or Linux can load real software as well. iPhone has a web browser - maybe quite a full-function web browser, but still just a web browser, shutting off a vast number of applications.
The iPhone is actually far more proprietary than Windows Mobile, which is astonishingly open and extensible by comparison.
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