As the crowd begins to regain its composure after the heart flutters instilled by Steve Jobs’s Macworld Keynote last week, news is slowly emerging that the iPhone may not beworthy of the accolades that many are heaping onto it.

The announcement that the device will run OS X may be a red herring of sorts. It seems that Apple is intent on keeping a tight leash on how users may hope to use the device. Optimist that you are, you may say, “you’ve got it all wrong! Apple would never do that to it’s customers!”

Let’s forego the point that Apple and Cingular (or at&t, if you will) are determined to keep iPhone firmly locked to the wireless carrier’s network. Apple’s attitude towards DRM – namely, that it will never sell content without DRM protection, even if it is not demanded by labels/studios, should give everyone pause as they consider locking themselves even tighter into the i/Tunes/Pod/Phone empire.

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