I don't think this is a bad thing. I can't tell you how many times a
customer of mine had loaded something on their treo and then had to
reload the whole thing with old backups or worse...a synced backup.

Bear in mind, his royal highness, Steve Jobs always said "Convergence devices
suck" and he's right, but i'm sure they knew everyone wanted an ipod- phone- so inevitably Apple does it their own way. Should I enlighten you about the
wonderful Nokia I used to have that no-one at Nokia or Cingular could figure
out just what were stable MEdianet settings on the frickin' thing? and the
radio that was in it well...needed a "special headphone" that nobody sold?

I think all these dev complaints are really sour grapes. Wait till Leopard comes out and Apple implements other features other phones don't have.
I'm pretty sure this why Apple is locking us out of a full blown sdk.