Urgent: Open App Markets Act

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and senators to support the Open App Markets Act. It would require Apple to allow users to install apps obtained from places other than Apple's store.

It looks like this would make it possible to distribute free software for the iThings which users could build from source. That means iThings would no longer be jails.

Of course, they would still be nasty in many other ways, so I would still urge everyone to reject iThings, along with Android.