Oh, Steve. Steve, Steve, Steve.

[prog]

Call me Cory if you must, but I found the lead graf of this story about Apple's latest response to iPhone hackers very disappointing.

“It’s a cat-and-mouse game,” said Steve Jobs. “We try to stay ahead. People will try to break in, and it’s our job to stop them breaking in.”

And by "people" he means "customers". I mean, by definition. The iPhone is a hunk of hardware that has been purchased for hundreds of dollars each by the people in question; there's no other way to obtain one. And Steve Jobs, who happily took their money, stands here and baldly states that it's now Apple's job to thwart their own customers against using their purchases as they like.

Gawd. I dunno.

And this isn't even getting into the conventional wisdom that these insulting maneuvers are all futile anyway, since any sufficiently charged-up hacker base will always circumvent your barriers within moments of their release...