This article makes no sense. Microsoft never releases an OS? (What are Vista and Windows 7?) Apple is prefectly good except for the evil AT&T not letting iPhone users use Google Voice? (What about all the other apps Apple blocks that have nothing to do with making phone calls or using data?) Before the iPhone you couldn't install apps on your phone? (Hello, Windows Mobile and Blackberry, you guys apparently didn't exist until after Apple invented you.) What?

Anyway, if you don't like Apple's business practices, don't do business with them. They are not going to change. Change is in your hands. There are plenty of other smartphone OSes that will show you your email, twitter, and Google Maps. (Not many fart apps on the other platforms, though, I admit.)

If you are a developer, it's clear that nobody is making money off iPhone apps, so there is no real reason to keep clinging to the platform. The gravy train has come to an end -- the iPhone is not especially amazing for users, and it's not especially amazing for developers.

1984 days is more than five years. That's three years longer than the iPhone has even been out, and an absolute eternity in internet time. Is the current Apple situation obnoxious? Sure. Is that worth whining about for five years straight? No.

You didn't read the whole article:

He also realizes that if Apple proves to be intransigent, and nobody joins his revolution, there's no way he'll bother to keep this up for 1,984 days, but it's just such a perfect number to use, and instead he'll keep it up for a few months then give up in disgust and ultimately sell his iPhone when his AT&T contract runs out.

I think he expects that google voice will be available on the iPhone way before five years are up.

Maybe it's time to take the whole Ritalin and stop breaking them in half.

When two big companies have lucrative contracts between them like this, it's not generally easy for one to throw the other under a bus.