Watch as I deliver a manifesto for an activity I have not participated in:

I read recently that you Apple Store employees didn't like it when people come in to the stores and jailbreak all the iPhones and start installing applications on them. Apparently, it takes them a few hours to restore all the iPhones to the default, locked state, readying them for the next day's assault.

I can see how this could be a problem. I think this public plea for people to stop doing it is misdirected however. The root of your problem is not the your customers are messing up your demo products by going to a specific, malformed website and hacking into them. It is that a malformed website has the ability to hack your demo products.

So in response to your plea, I give you a plea to complain to Apple about this problem. Tell them that their employees are having their time wasted by the fact that the iPhone platform is closed to development and, more importantly, that the Safari browser on the iPhone has a critical but that allows people to install arbitrary code.

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