>This is a false choice - there's no reason the iPhone can't be both a walled garden-type device and support alternative OSes/software, just like a computer. C

>This is a false choice - there's no reason the iPhone can't be both a walled garden-type device and support alternative OSes/software, just like a computer. Correct. There is no reason the iPhone cannot be both. There is also no reason why Apple should be required to make it both simply because that's what a vanishingly small number of vocal malcontents wish for.