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Well, this plain sucks, and is really stupid.  Best part about smart phones and PDAs, is the ability to develop applications to run on them.

If Apple is worried about crappy performance due to a 3rd party application, they should just create an [optional] Apple certification process that applications can go thru.  Then if someone bitches about their iPhone’s performance, they simply can ask: Do you currently have non-certified programs installed?  If the answer is yes, they simply instruct them to remove it and try it again, then if the performance is still lacking, then they can take it up.

Though, I do think that after the exclusivity agreement between Apple and Cingular runs out, this will business model will vaporize.  Although I wouldn’t be surprized if the iPhone SDK isn’t included in the freebie development kit.  Sure, they’ll include basic app support (like widgets, as it’s one of the biggest 3rd party efforts for normal OS X) for the freebie and student ($99/yr.) ADC tier, but a full blown iPhone SDK will probably only be included in the select ($500/yr.) or premium ($3,500/yr.) ADC tiers.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) article: Apple VPs confirm no 3rd party iPhone apps

The mondern workforce is getting shafted. There are no national holidays, observed by all companies (like Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, etc.) between 1 Janurary and Memorial Day (last week of May). Sure, some companies, most government agencies get Presidents’ Day, maybe MLKJr. Day, but that’s it.

What about the rest of us? We’re up shit creek.

Solution: St. Patrick’s Day (March 17^th-ish? I’m guessing here, I usually have a huge hangover on the 18^th), official national holiday.

Everybody gets to be Irish for a day. Most of the population probably has Irish ancestry (including me) anyway. Hey, they’re Catholic, and they drink… a lot… and what does drinking and a propensity for unsafe sex lead to? Apparently the Guiness Brewery in Dublin, Ireland is like Disney World for adults (and/or drunks).

Another holiday: December 5^th. No, it’s not Saint Nicolas Tag, that’s German. December 5^th is to commemorate and honor the only good or positive action that Congress has ever done. They got off their asses and passed the 21^st Amendment to repeal Prohibition (18^th Amendment).