AT&T Welcomes Programmers for All Phones Except the iPhone

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday October 2, 2007 @02:46AM from the come-out-and-play dept.

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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Wait just a minute... by $RANDOMLUSER · 2007-10-02 02:52 · Score: 4, Funny

vindictiveness or obsessive interest in control
I've heard Steve Jobs called a lot of things but...
errr....
never mind.

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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Re:Security Security Security by Anonymous Coward · 2007-10-02 05:45 · Score: 3, Funny

"I removed 18 Trojans from my girlfriend's mom's computer the other day!"

Sounds like your girlfriend's mom has been busy.