NYT: A Lost iPhone Shows Apple’s Churlish Side […] Apple executives have often behaved as though the ultimate custody and control of information lies with them, and the company has gone to extraordinary lengths to protect its interests. […] As a consumer and admirer of Apple’s chronic innovation, it makes me queasy. […] Then again, it will take you anywhere on the Web, unless it involves the use of Adobe’s Flash software, which Mr. Jobs has found wanting. The churlishness about Flash again goes to the issue of control, of wanting to have dominion over all aspects of the customer experience.

About freakin’ time someone with a blog that’s bigger than mine said something about it.

And they don’t even get into the compiler lock down that recently got tucked into the SDK EULA…