There is a side-effect to jailbreaking that's worrying Apple. Jailbreaking disables application signing. A jailbroken iPhone will run any software you compile yourself but it also runs any official AppStore packages you care to install on it. In other words apart from opening up the phone it also enables software piracy. And that's not a good thing for (commercial) developers IMO.

Maybe Google should distribute Latitude using Cydia (APT for iPhone, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydia_(application)). This would provide everything it needs including background tasks and maybe, just maybe, it would be a wakeup call for Apple...

OR they buy a legitimate $1 gift certificate and use its number to create a $200 gift certificate. I can not imagine that they would make the mistake of not linking the part coding for the amount to the part making up the unique identifier. But who knows...

Only 30GB? :-)

No I don't sync the Music library, I sync iTunes' settings (iTunes Library; Album Artwork/; iTunes Library Genius.itdb; iTunes Music Library.xml ;iTunes Music; iTunes Library Extras.itdb), as I said the Music library itself is on a common share.

To play the same music from outside your local subnet there are all sort of possibilities. For instance there's MyTunesRSS which let you play your music from any web browser supporting Flash (with a little bit of Apache configuration all you need is port 80 so it works almost everywhere); then there's a simple hack where you locally copy all traffic over TCP port to another TCP port and inject the proper mDNS stuff in a computer outside of your network and play your music anywhere using iTunes itself; or simply use Simplify Media and play your enitire music collection anywhere even using an iPhone over 3G in your car. And that's just three examples.

If you think even a little bit out of the box a lot of cool stuff is possible. I can't understand why all these Slashdot unix geeks are suddenly so limited and "locked up" as soon as they hear the word Apple. Behind that "pretty ui" there's another environment where a lot of nice stuff is possible.