Who Owns Your Phone?

Dan Gillmor raises some very interesting questions on the state of technology and what 'ownership' really means to Kindle,  iPhone (and iSlate) owners @ Mediaactive:
 

You may think you own the device you bought last week from a retailer. What you own, increasingly, is only the hardware; what you don't own is the right to use it the way you want to use it, even for entirely legal purposes.[...] But to reach iPhone users, developers had to get Apple's permission to be listed in the store. Lots of them have, plainly, as the number of applications is said to be above 100,000; but there are well-documented horror stories featuring Apple's refusal, on often mysterious or capricious grounds, to allow specific applications to be sold or even given away.