The GH1 is crippled to prevent people from using third-party batteries. Panasonic claims it's for safety reasons, but with their batteries costing $55, and third party batteries costing $30, it's obviously for profit margins. (Especially considering Panasonic has had its share of battery problems recently.)

I won't buy a GH1 until Panasonic removes this crippling code.

Objective-C is ELEGANT!? Honestly?

I'm glad so many people are happy to program in Objective-C, because a few hours dipping my toes into iPhone software development gave me flashbacks to C++ / MFC programming. After years of programming in modern high-level languages, I refuse to go back to such a primitive language.

Technology marches on, but Apple's development environment is stuck in the 80's with NeXT.

$200 and we lose the use of the GPS if we need to use the phone, iPod, or Internet?

Why would I buy this when I can pick up a dedicated TomTom unit for $110 at Best Buy? Using a TomTom and the iPhone in tandem is a much superior solution, and it's about half the cost.

I really like my TomTom GPS unit, and would like to have one on my iPhone, but especially considering how the TomTom will "eat" most of the functionality of the iPhone while it's in use there's no way I'll pay what they're asking. I will have to rely on the competition to undercut TomTom on price, and go with someone else instead. Do I hear $40, anyone?

"Apple's not doing anything bad"?

Talk about blind devotion. Apple could shoot the TUAW dog, and at least one blogger would muse "it was an old dog, anyway."

I've been reading TUAW since I got back into Macs about five years ago. I've always found the occasional fanboyism I see here to be a bit annoying, but lately you guys have gone off the deep end. More and more it seems like you guys are a guerrilla Apple PR team. I have to say, I'm sick of it.

Version 1.0 was $4 in August 2008.
Version 2.0 is $3 eight months later.

Subscription-based software fees on the iPhone? NO WAY! What's next, the old "upgrade insurance" scam?

Hm, I was going to finally move back to Tivo from my DTV DVR when they released a new MPEG4 Tivo for DTV. Now I'm not. I'd rather deal with a sluggish interface than suffer ads. That is, after all, why I bought a Tivo way back when they launched.

Tivo has poisoned their own well. :(

The difference between a web server logging my use and your application logging my use is that I KNOW web servers log my use.

Would you use the same excuse to store my credit card info? Amazon does that, after all.

Yeeeeeah.... nice try. If you know enough to set up a server for NAT, you would also understand that when someone asks you for your device's IP address, your IP address is NOT the external IP address of your NAT server. It's still the internal IP address of your phone. Most likely 192.168.x.x or some such address. But you bluffed and gave us your web server's address hoping that we wouldn't look at it. And your bluff failed.

I don't know of any attack to do with your ID. This is true. I never claimed there was an outstanding attack I could do with your ID. (Personally, I wouldn't attack someone's phone even if I could.) But that doesn't mean there won't be one in the future. And just as problematic as the threat of an ID-based attack is the fact that the author of this app is essentially logging every time you use your web browser. I have a hard enough time providing Tivo with zip code-specific marketing info, why would I want to supply this guy with information on when I use my browser?

So your iPhone is on the Virgin network and runs Apache on Debian? That's a neat trick!

Like I said before: post your UUID.

Anybody who thinks the UUID is harmless, and decries those of us who don't want that info shared with unknown parties, put your money where your mouth is. Post yours here. Otherwise you're just blowing hot air.

It would also be nice if you posted your phone's IP address, because the author of Full Screen Web Browser logs that, too. I'm sure nobody will do anything with that information, either.

Unless you're paranoid, of course.