I'd like to hear Steve Jobs' take on the matter. It's my opinion that this is what he always wanted and if he made the Mac today it would be a walled garden as well. When the phone came out he was called on it and had an absurd BS answer, but one that's no longer applicable:<p>"You don’t want your phone to be an open platform," meaning that anyone can write applications for it and potentially gum up the provider's network, says Jobs. "You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn't want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up."<p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2007/01/6597.ars" rel="nofollow">http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2007/01/6597.ars</a><p>It would be curious to see what he has to say now. I admire the hell of the guy, but it really seems like he doesn't understand the criticism because to him the iPhone OS is the perfect environment. And as such, why would he let anyone screw it up?