Home > Archive > 2009 > September > 23 I want to divorce my iPhone Wednesday, September 23, 2009 by Dave Winer. The iPhone is so totally not my spiritual soulmate. I refuse to become dependent on apps grown in their environment. To me it's like contributing to the enslavement of my brother and sister programmers. I don't care how sexy the environment is as a user or a developer, the fact that Apple holds up apps and rejects them often because they compete with their own software is to me like buying a coat made of the skins of endangered species. I won't use iPhone apps for ecological reasons. I use my iPhone as a: 1. Phone. 2: Camera that can communicate (very valuable feature to me). 3. A Bluetooth tethering device for places my Sprint MiFi doesn't work (and that's a lot of places). For that I pay about $100 per month. I think I'm being ripped off. (Sure of it.) Okay Scripting News readers -- tell me I'm crazy but I want a divorce. Enough of this bullshit. But I need a phone that does 1, 2 and 3. What will I fall in love with? PS: I have my contacts in GMail. Must be able to synch with them. One of my favorite iPhone features. PPS: I never use it as an iPod. I prefer my Walkman.





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Dave Winer, 54, pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California. "The protoblogger." - NY Times. "The father of modern-day content distribution." - PC World. One of BusinessWeek's 25 Most Influential People on the Web. "Helped popularize blogging, podcasting and RSS." - Time. "The father of blogging and RSS." - BBC. "RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's 'Really Simple Syndication' technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's 'Rich Site Summary', which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows." - Tim O'Reilly. http://twitter.com/davewiner



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