John Gruber, who runs, owns, rules, presides over, and is the king of the wonderful Daring Fireball linked list and assorted goodies, has linked to a craptastically written* article by TheStreet.com's Gary Krakow.
The piece stinks, and smells bad as well — well, the first half of it, at least; I couldn't make it any farther. Don't worry, Gruber's whole point in posting was to point out its stinkiness, although, I cannot help to notice that he mentioned nothing of the smell, and as such, I henceforth assume that my olfactory prowess is greater than his.
I stopped reading the article when it became completely obvious (it was already obvious) that he was attempting to accuse Apple of actually setting out to block iPhone jailbreakers and unlockers.
I won't get into an argument over whether or not Apple would like to do such a thing; instead, I state that they would be insane to do such a thing, as, as of 2.0.1, the keyboard is still slow in Mail, and that means that they likely have enough performance problems and other bugs to deal with anyway — they can't really afford to divert their attention to something as petty as shutting down hackers who, now that you must get an AT&T plan to begin with (unless you pay a large fee), have managed to unlock the phone.
Such pettiness is for John McCain (see his tire inflation jokes).
Outside of the world of politics, such pettiness is for Microsoft. Microsoft, in fact, spends so much time ensuring that their products can't be hacked that it ends up sucking, completely. And the resulting product is one that, while hackers are still perfectly able to hack (the wicked fiends that they are), end users are oft unable to even activate.
Apple would be silly to be so petty.
Though, the keyboard is still slow. Maybe they do have their priorities mixed up.
* I am not speaking of the actual writing quality, as I did not pay attention enough to judge, but rather the quality of the research and thought put into the article.