Earlier this week, Apple told Macworld editorial director Jason Snell that it doesn't want customers looking inside the iPhone's black box. Apple isn't publicly listing or discussing certain hardware details of the new iPhone 3G S, specifically the CPU and system RAM. Jason thinks that Apple is pushing the no-techie-nonsense "it just works" mantra that its products are polished with.

I don't buy it, and I worry that Apple is trying in vain to avoid an App Store backlash from consumers.

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