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No Third-party Apps on iPhone Says Jobs

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the hack-something-else dept.

wyldeone writes "In an interview with the New York Times, Steve Jobs confirms reports that the recently-announced iPhone will not allow third party applications to be installed. According to Jobs, 'These are devices that need to work, and you can't do that if you load any software on them.' In a similar vein, Jobs said in a MSNBC article that, 'Cingular doesn't want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.'"

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  1. Re:Cue dada and the anarcho-capitalist junk... by xero314 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    So you think I'll get angry, commenting about how Jobs is restricting the market, right?
    I never thought you would get angry since Jobs/Apple are the market, or at least part of it and no neo-libertarian would ever believe that a member of the market (read: non-governmental organization) could restrict the market. The fact that in a free market, the wealthy are the governing bodies is completely beside the point.

    What I did expect was for you to figure out a way to point out how you would rather not pay your employees a living wage and spout off about some incentive program (a.k.a. indentured servitude). Or is that coming later?

    The fact that apple has the iPhone tied to one (read: not my preferred) carrier is a far more egregious affront to freedom than not letting people install third party software.
  2. Whoopsie... by Greyfox · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Guess I'll stick with my Nokia E70 then. And I've got a Mac Pro desktop, a powerbook and an iPod. I'd say that I don't recall Apple so completely missing the point before, but their closed platform and expensive proprietary hardware back in the day cost them market dominance in the PC industry. So... way to not learn from history, Jobs.

    --

    I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?

  3. Re:Right... by loganrapp · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Even if the iPhone fails, I hope they realize that the 16:9 screen is needed for the video iPod. They know people were getting up for that thing.

    I think the gamble may be that because there was so much interest in it, people will buy the iPhone to replace their iPod so they can have that screen. Which I don't think will happen.

    However, really, please Steve. 16:9 video iPod. Please?