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The iPhone shirt: world’s most locked-in device explodes

By Ernst-Jan Pfauth
January 4, 2009
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While I was standing in line for one of the first iPhone 3G’s in Holland last July, this tweet by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels made me chuckle:

Strange how people who fanatically promote openness are lined up outside a shop that delivers some of this era’s most closed/lockedin tools

He was absolutely right. The iPhone IS locked-in and many examples of rejected iPhone apps show what the consequences are. If you develop an app that comes close to Apple’s core products, you don’t stand a chance. Just ask Dutch iPhone app developer Vincent Verweij about his experiences with the Apple Store.

Yet almost every 2.0 geek seems to have one, even mr. Vogels himself. Thus the best thing we can do is accept it and laugh about it. Here’s a suggestion how to do so: wear a t-shirt of an exploded iPhone. The most locked-in device, now revealed on your t-shirt. Quite a funny example of fashion sarcasm.

exploded iphone

See all the t-shirts here.


  • I am a T-shirt printer...I should have thought of that :(
  • It might be a closed/lockedin device, but it is simply 5 times better then all other phones. That is why you need to have one.
  • That's just temporary, eventually a better (and open) phone will come along. Android anyone?
  • Sure that is true, but I haven't seen an android phone yet. And for now I have a 2 year subscription at T-mobile, which will suck for sure when new cool phones hit the market
  • Currently Browsing: http://tinyurl.com/a7a2wj
  • Actually, Apple airheads only complain about lack of openness when it doesn't work on their Mac.

    I owned an iPhone for a short while, and after three days I wanted to get rid of it. Thankfully I managed to sell it and get me a phone that actually is useful for more than just web surfing and mp3s.

    5 times better than any other phone? Ha ha!
  • Actually the iPhone I was referring to I owned by a level of indirection: it is my daughter's. In some sense the HTC touch pro was better, at least you could replace the battery with spare when you would run out ....
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