iPhone root hacked (Score 1)

This phone has the potential of being extremely useful if we can figure out how to load apps onto the platform... and importantly, if developers can figure out how to make the system work so that we can load our favorite and most useful apps. One of my pet peeves about converged devices is that they come with pathetically inadequate onboard storage... The onboard 2 or 4 gigs of storage is a good start. I don't know what the iPhone ships with as far as actual memory.. but I know that my pocketPC device is a piece of garbage... So I have high hopes that our community will hack away until it becomes simply a matter of following a cookbook to load up my favorite apps (business apps mostly). Then the only issue will be waiting until someone figures out how to "unlock" the thing so it will run on another network.... anything faster than the dreaded "edge" network. Apple already caved on this with their AppleTV. They at first had no direct Web connectivity except via their walled garden iTunes store. Then enough people downloaded the hack for YouTube "Tubes" I think, and suddenly Apple was issuing a press release that they had "integrated" YouTube access into the product as a "feature." Talk about revisionist. To be sure, this is not "normal" Apple behavior, and it may signal that they are finally figuring out that consumers will quickly abandon even the uber-cool Apple brand if it shuts them off from reasonable functionality. Perhaps someone is finally getting to Steve, and explaining why he is still at the fringe of the PC market when he could have *owned* the PC market... He can start over with this new world of video and mobile entertainment (better said: "wireless entertainment") which, without using hyperbole, could reasonably be considered his to lose.... Not Bill's. At least if you consider the Zune versus the iPod and the Windows Mobile versus anything running an apple mobile OS... and of course the hand-in-glove workings of the iTunes + iPhone + AppleTV combinations.... now if we could just unlock iTunes so that my five iPods could freely exchange and mash-up playlists and content across my local home network, if not via a Web connection from the road. But now I am really dreaming. Thanks for the thoughtful story. Matty