Sigh…you know, you’d have thought, by now, that Apple would have learned it’s bloody lesson: stop forcing your customers to go to AT&T! First, they “lose” a bunch of iPad customers’ data to Goatse Security hackers (including stuff from government people that should damned well know better than to be doing things on an unsecured network…), now they can’t even keep their network afloat to take pre-orders for the iPhone 4.

Maybe looking into unlocking the iPhone and the iPad wpould be a good idea, Apple, because AT&T’s networks seem a bit…crappy…to me.  I was an AT&T customer back 6 years ago.  For a few years before that, they were a fantastic phone service.  Then they teamed up with Cingular and turned to unadulterated $#!t.  And they haven’t improved — especially if you want to make a phone call — that I’ve seen.  Apparently, in some cities, the strain on the bandwidth from the Apple devices alone is killing service for customers in New York and San Francisco.

But the Jobs, apparently, can’t be bothered to give his customers freedom (as witnessed by the crappy content of the iBooks store — I’m downloading Guttenberg stuff on the iBooks store; I’m spending money where I can get the books I want…from Amazon’s Kindle on the iPad app.  Then there’s the Flash issue:  thanks for making half the web content unavailable to me Uncle Steve.  (This, by the way, is why — until the iPad — I’ve avoided Apple products.  I have their corporate culture.)