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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?'"
errr....
never mind.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Give us insane amounts of money.
No, you can't THAT with an iPhone.
We are going to bill you so hard you'll wish you were never born.
No, you can't do THAT with an iPhone 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 iPhone 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 phone 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]
AT&T is innocent
My head just exploded.
Sounds like your girlfriend's mom has been busy.