Mark argues that we should boycott the iPhone if we're bothered by its being closed. But what if we are already boycotting all the other phones because they're so awful?
Maybe the iPhone is a great phone, even for hackers, in spite of being closed?
There are other good phones, it's just that most of them are produced by a company with a braindead marketing department (read: Nokia, and its E70, which Maddox raves about here: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone).
Another good phone that is pending release this month and could not possibly be any more open is the Open Moko, a Linux-based, completely-open-sourced option which I think could easily compete with the iPhone given some time. Check out http://openmoko.com . It's what I'm waiting for, anyways....
Maybe the iPhone is a great phone, even for hackers, in spite of being closed?