I can see this, but why not have an app for Macs or Linux? Is it because the way to make a universal app, means that it would be much easier to get it onto mobile handsets? And the logic of not allowing it on mobiles doesn't make all that much sense. Quite a few Verizon broadband customers are not also Verizon Wireless customers (and aren't the businesses technically separate anyway? Does Vodaphone still own a major stake in Verizon Wireless?) Anyway, seems that by providing free wifi you could be stealing 3G wireless business away from some of your competitors.

I'm obviously not thinking this through very clearly, and I'm sure from a business standpoint it makes sense for Verizon...but I'm really getting tired of this closed approach in the wireless world.