Why do Europeans have such a hard-on for Apple? First the whole DRM thing in whatever country it was in (Norway or something?). Now this drivel:

an interesting suggestion from the CEO of Carphone Warehouse has got Europeans looking a bit more closely at how things will eventually be ran in their neck of the woods. It was stated that “in order for the iPhone to function correctly, there is a requirement for Apple servers to be placed deep in the operator’s network,” which has led some to believe that Apple could have a “a non-GSM, non-standard way of authenticating its phone.”

You mean like RIM does with the BlackBerry?

Seriously. If you don’t believe me, give it a go some time. Take a GSM BlackBerry out of the box, throw your SIM in it, and try to do anything with it other than make a call. You can’t. And the reason you can’t is that unless you have the BlackBerry “service” on your phone, you can’t do anything with the handheld. That’s not exactly wide open, and yet you never hear anyone complain about it.

Of course that would be like comparing blackberries to apples.

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