No Third-party Apps on iPhone Says Jobs

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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Re:TOTAL control.

[El Lobo]

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!