My New Year's Resolution for 2008

All is quiet on New Year's Day....... Nothing changes on New Year's Day.  Mr. Hewson's aptly titled song and apropos sentiments ring true for the moment in the iPhone world.  

Unfortunately, these sentiments won't apply to tomorrow, or the days to come for that matter.

Firmware bomb 1.1.3 is set to blow in the early days of this new year. But will it wreak the havoc and total chaos that most anticipate? Loss of read and write access? third party apps? Tricky and dexterous jailbreaks and activations? Not to mention, the time consuming tweaks, symlinks, plugin's and incrdible well spring of developers and knowledge bases? 

Ok. So be it! Damn the torpedos, full steam ahead! Here's to the a brave new firmware world..... A Hello World of jiggly moveable applications,  multiple SMS capability, google maps with movable push pins and the almost, but no cigar, world of cellular GPS.

Another firware update with little to no content.  No Flash?!!?  Where's the MMS? Ok, How about a little higher CPU and Bus frequency?  C'mon, lets push Microsoft Outlook/Exchange mail. Stop it with the maps already. 

Nevermind the SDK (Software Development Kit) is due out in February. It is nice to have what you've got. The unauthorized third party development for the iPhone has been the selling point in my opinion. The most stable and useful aspects of the device have come from the third party developers. 

Obviously The Great Job's concedes this fact with the promised Apple SDK. It is just unfortunate that Apple's development for its own device pales in comparison. The firmware updates have offered little more in the way of content than annoyance and mild setback to a community of developers and users. This latest firmware, as leaked, is no exception to the Apple trend. 

Honestly, I can't imagine a world without this amazing device. Everyone should, and eventually will have the opportunity to own his/her very own. And yes, Apple has rocked the Big Blue Marble with their creation. But, until some serious Apple updates and some useful applications..... Well void my warranty and call me hacked.