There's always gotta be one

Arik Hesseldahl, in a column in BusinessWeek, decries the iPhone, and swears he'll never buy one, because he thinks Apple is "keeping the iPhone from evolving in a manner consistent with its corporate heritage"...

Software developers are part of what makes the Mac the strong platform it is. But on the iPhone they're just troublemakers. Troublemakers who might, in the worse case, cost Apple and its hand-picked partners money. And that's why Jobs has promised to stop them. For starters, they may unlock the phone, enabling it to be used on any network, not just that of AT&T. Beyond that, they'll create applications that could rankle any number of other Apple partners... The company that styles itself as the technology supplier of choice for creative people with great ideas is insisting that to own its products is to accept a defined orthodoxy where there's only one acceptable way to do things. That doesn't sound like the Apple I know. So I'm not going to buy an iPhone. And until Apple commits to changing this ridiculous policy, I don't think you should either.

Rico says he's quite sure Steve Jobs isn't losing much sleep over Hesseldahl's issues...