TechCrunch places a wake-up call to Apple

.. after customized iPhones were bricked by the latest upgrade. Everyone knows this, but it's nice to see someone in the industry say it:

But Steve Jobs might be better served here to take his own advice and think different. Because, as he has so elegantly demonstrated with the iPhone, these devices are finally becoming little computers. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that consumers will expect them to act like computers. They will want to modify them to their exact, quirky predilections. They will want to use them any way they want, as a general-purpose device.

Note to Apple: Stop thinking Like a Phone Company

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