Why doesn’t Apple Inc. want to make the iPhone a profitable smart phone? After all that craziness that welcomed the ultimate gadget on the market more than three months ago, the iPhone seems to have transformed very quickly into the black sheep of the next generation mobile phones heard. And all of the troubles have been generated only by Apple Inc., the creator of the iPhone, the device that has been initially expected to be the mobile phone of all mobile phones!

While in the normal cases everything happens for a reason, in Apple’s case it is still a mystery why the company doesn’t want to have people, programmers, writing programs to run on its iPhone. The recently released iPhone software update has not just frozen the unlocked iPhones and left the owners with angry thoughts and long faces, but it has also deliberately disabled the third-party applications that the users have installed.

Apple’s explanations seem coherent to themselves, but strange if compared to all the other mobile phones businesses.

“You don’t want your phone to be an open platform.”, which means that anyone would be able to write applications for it and potentially gum up the provider’s network, has said Apple Inc.’s CEO, Steve Jobs, adding that “You need it to work when you need it to work.” So his words are coherent, but only to themselves.

So how could Jobs explain the fact that there are millions of mobile phones that are capable of running operating system from Microsoft, Palm and others for which third-party applications are created all the time, without making the networks to crash as a result? Will we ever find out what is in fact behind of these strange, upsetting moves? Is it possible for such a great company to be so bad with its clients, only by mistake?