Not sure why I’ve been on such an iPhone kick today, but I just had to post this article.

In a post this morning, I referred to a draft bill in congress that had the potential to end the exclusive agreement between Apple and AT&T in the US, thus making the iPhone available with other carriers.

Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Investment Symposium, Tim Cook, Apple CEO, stated that Apple isn’t married to the one-carrier strategy it has used so far, even if it makes the most business sense.

Click here to read the full article at AppleInsider.

This is fairly irrelevant to this site, but I’ve been drooling over the iPhone since it was just a rumor. Therefore, news such as this tends to excite me.

A draft law proposed by Representative Ed Markey (D-Mass.) would require mobile providers to offer subsidy-free wireless equipment which would effectively break the exclusive deal between Apple and AT&T.

Now, I’m not sure how I feel about the ethics of the whole thing. I do support a company’s right to make exclusive deals. I just (selfishly) would like to be able to buy an iPhone here in Montana!

Read the full article here.

I was excited to discover from a macnn article today that the multitouch technology, first released with the iPhone and now existing on the iPod Touch and MacBook Air as well, is simply a software feature. This means that, potentially, the ability to swipe through pages, zoom in and out of images with a pinch or spread of the fingers, or possibly more could be added to existing MacBooks and/or MacBook Pros with a software update.

No official release plans have been laid out by Apple, but it’s exciting news, nonetheless!