I think the next device will try to be exactly that. They will have a "DRM Mode" that will make the carriers happy, with no root access and lots of security features like signed applications, and they'll also have a "hacker mode" for people like me, which will allow root access ... but no DRM. But we hackers aren't supposed to care about DRM anyway, right?

I guess you could say that the next device will be very iPhone-like out of the box, with lots of lock-down, easy-to-use services and shiny apps, but it will ship with a vendor-approved way to "jailbreak" the device.