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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. Horrible. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now apple has shoot them selfs in the face.

  2. Just as well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "These are devices that need to work, and you can't do that if you load any software on them" ...bloody lucky I didn't buy a Mac - I kinda like having software on my computers!

  3. Re:TOTAL control. by El+Lobo · · Score: 1, Troll
    Apple has always been about control: hardware control, sofftware control, etc. Interesting, people of course bashes MS when they say that "they are Worried that OEM 'Craplets' Will Harm Vista". But the same people applaud Apple here. Of course in the case of MS they get bashed whatever they say and do. In the case of Apple some people will just defend them whatever they do... It's all abbout doubble standards of course...

    I try try to avoid anything Apple like the pest, even if I must use it at work. I've been using Macs (and Mac clowns) since forever at work. It was not a surprise when Appled decided that the mac clowns were making some money and they shut down the whole thing, those making the whole plattform more expensive and monopolistical just once more.

    Oh.. and don't get me started about the "pretty" and "nice" overrated OSX. Pretty? Could be like all dumbed down Apple interfaces, but this is a real annoying mouse centric OS, let me tell you, but people just close their eyes being it Apple!

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  4. jobs ego == bill gates by timmarhy · · Score: 0, Troll

    egotistical control freak, all apples products are like this. fuck you jobs if i buy something why shouldn't i be able to do what i want with it. i'm so sick of fuckers like him telling me what i want and whats good for me. his argument that a poorly written app could take down a cell phone network is so floored i hardly know where to start. \how about this - is he suggesting apple would never release software with bugs in it?

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  5. Re:Right... by julesh · · Score: 0, Troll

    KDE on a phone? Yeah, that's going to work. It runs like a dog on my 400MHz box. Most phones have, what, 200MHz processors? Need to be low power, you know...

  6. Re:I call BS by Cheapy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do some searching around. Come back when you found out that the headline is correct. It should be taking you 3 minutes.

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