Calacanis highlighted five reasons that Apple is an “anti-competitive monster”: It doesn’t make iTunes or iPod compatible with other Mp3 players, highlighting what Calacanis called its ”inexcusable lack of openness”; it locks iPhone users into AT&T as a carrier; it makes iPhone developers go through an “unclear” approval process; it blocks other browsers from being installed on the iPhone; and it blocks applications like Google Voice from iPhones. The WSJ reports that Calacanis debated former Apple marketing executive Guy Kawasaki at Startup2startup, a monthly event for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors and Calacanis made the case that the iPhone is not a phone, it’s a computer and "the application layer on a computer should not be controlled by anybody."
Kawasaki responded that he may not agree with the approval process for iPhone apps, but that doesn’t mean Apple is evil and instead merely shows that the company is successful at its business. Calacanis argued that the more open technology is, the more everyone benefits. “Everyone has benefited from the open Internet. The open Internet is the reason why all these VCs will invest in your companies," said Calacanis adding that “I think there should be an iPhone bill of rights."
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Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.
Life is a leaf of paper white, thereon each of us may write his word or two.
On earth there is nothing great but man; in the man there is nothing great but mind.
Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, and dress, and soul, and ideas.
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