This is yet another oxymoron of the day: Open iPhone. And yet, there's a whole book on the subject, or at least a Rough Cut. You have to love a book that reads like the ethnic-joke recipe for Chicken Soup. You know the joke: "First, steal one chicken." In the case of iPhone Open Application Development (O'Reilly, 2008), the joke is that the iPhone is locked, locked, locked. So Chapter 1 of the book is called Br You have to love a book that reads like the ethnic-joke recipe for Chicken Soup. You know the joke: “First, steal one chicken.”In the case of iPhone Open Application Development (O’Reilly, 2008), the joke is that the iPhone is locked, locked, locked. So Chapter 1 of the book is called Breaking into and Setting Up the iPhone. There are extended riffs on what to do when a new version of the OS or of iTunes locks the phone down again.The authors of this book-in-progress claim that Apple would have to make impossibly huge changes to the iPhone OS to break the application model that they’ve pieced together by hacking the phone. I suppose they’re right. You know what? I’ll wait for the SDK, should Apple ever deign to release it. My chicken-stealing skills aren’t what they once were. Software Development