Changing all the rules

The title is borrowed from The Harrow Group, which used to publish a technology newsletter and they pointed out how certain inventions would change all the rules to the game.

The iPhone is one such devise. I do NOT have an iPhone nor plan on buying one, but it has changed how the phone makers and the wireless networks in the US related to each other and how this can and likely will end up with the customer being able to use their phone on more then one network (instead of each phone being locked down to a particular network) and the carriers making a lot more money.

Hat tip Hugh Hewitt. In reading the comments on his blog about this, a story about a phone and most of the comments are about politics. People need to get a life as there is more to life then presidential politics.