Jason Calacanis’ letter entitled the ‘Case Against Apple in 5 Parts‘ has received plenty of attention and rebuttle but I’ve got to say, even as a life-long Mac fan, I kinda agree with him.

Apple has been building the iPhone as a new kind of computer: slick, mass-market, multi-touch, futuristic and utterly, utterly closed to anyone wanting to do anything that Apple hasn’t already envisaged for it.

I’ve been researching and learning about Cocoa Touch for some projects of my own, one of which would probably take a couple of months but would be amazing on the platform, but after what happened to Google, I just can’t afford to commit that kind of time to something that Apple has given itself the right to reject because ‘we just want to - your userbase isn’t cool like us’.

I’ve been told from numerous sources that it really isn’t that bad, but the problem is that I won’t find out if it is or isn’t until I’m the one in the financial hole waiting for Apple to pull me out by approving my effort.

Seriously, I’m thinking Android on the HTC Hero (with Flash, I might add) for my next business phone and move all of my apps onto my old iPod Touch (or simply retain my old iPhone in the bottom of my bag for when I want to play Monkey Island which pretty much relegates it to the same, slightly dusty position on the shelf with my PSP.

I can’t believe I just wrote that…

Tags: Apple

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