AT&T Welcomes Programmers for All Phones Except the iPhone

An anonymous reader writes "Apple's reasoning for keeping the iPhone a closed platform is that they don't want to 'potentially gum up the provider's network'. An article in the New York Times, though, points out that there are hundreds of phones out there working on open platforms that don't seem to be causing network interference. AT&T and Palm, in fact, welcome experimentation on their platforms. In AT&T's case ... on every phone but the iPhone. 'Hackers who have explored the workings of the phone say it uses the frameworks and structures that Apple uses on its other platforms to enable development; it just hasn't been documented. So if Apple is going to allow applications later, is there any reason -- other than vindictiveness or obsessive interest in control -- that it would want to cut off those developed by the pioneers who figured things out ahead of the official launch?'"

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The Xbox is a psychology experiment

[hxnwix]

Give us insane amounts of money.
No, you can't THAT with an Xbox.
We are going to bill you so hard you'll wish you were never born.
No, you can't do THAT with an Xbox either
We'll drop the price right away just to rub in what a stupid amount of money first adopters forked over
No, no NO! stop trying to use your Xbox in any way we haven't sanctioned

Doctor:

Notice how the subject keeps coming back for more and thanking us for it? The next update will cause the console to shock the user at random times. We will see how THAT gets spun into an innovative feature that the users thank us for.

[insert evil laugh here]

[Why are people incapable of making the easiest of comparisons? Are they stupid, or just dumb? Apple is going for the console model, you frickin retards. If you don't like it, by a WinCe shitbrick.]

Re:Is there? Yes....

[outZider]

I think it's really cute that you believe that's the case.