Third-Party Apps

Blijkbaar zat ik er toch niet zo ver naast om de vraag te stellen: zal de iPhone third party apps kunnen draaien? Blijkt Steve Jobs nu een ferm njet te hebben gegeven.

But it’s not like the walled garden has gone away. “You don’t want your phone to be an open platform,” meaning that anyone can write applications for it and potentially gum up the provider’s network, says Jobs. “You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.” (MSNBC)