I also believe that using an engineer's bug-reporting mechanism for business feature requests is an abuse of the developer interface.

But let me express it in more of a political context: if YOU were Apple, would you be more interested in reversing yourself by granting exceptions, escalated privileges and whatnot, to a firm that shows itself aggressive in misusing the general privileges?

There's a perfectly obvious justification -- sometimes, two or more -- behind EVERY one of the Apple restrictions, generally along the "security," "performance," "SDK immaturity" and "user experience" lines that other comments spell out above.

If I were looking for, say, a mechanism to access my PC across the dock, I'd expect to tell Apple (1) why this represents a bigger opportunity than a problem for them, and (2) a mechanism that would allow them to control the problems at a reasonable cost. Instead, this post deprecates Apple's business sense; NOBODY would run this stuff to somebody HALF as mercurial as Jobs is often said to be.

It's just foolish and naïve to expect Apple to turn the iPhone into the world's second biggest malware magnet. Likewise, to expect that they'll actively collaborate in screwing their business partner networks. And that perfection comes instantly, especially given the difficulties that EVEN customers of Rogue Amoeba have had in adapting -- e.g., Airfoil -- to the much more stable Mac OSX environment.

So what's really in it for R.A. to carry on this crusade this way?