No Third Party iPhone SDK

[Ashley Aitken]

On 12/01/2007, at 1:41 PM, Michael Stearne wrote:

> This is pretty unsubtle.
> http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apples-jobs-more- 
> iphone-apps-coming-before-launch/9320
>
> "You don't want your phone to be an open platform,", he said.

Yes, and the original article:

<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/technology/11cnd-apple.html>

Ouch.

It's not going to be an open platform.  He seems pretty adamant about  
that. He wants Apple to sell all the software as well. With approved  
(certified?) third-party applications.
“We define everything that is on the phone,”

  “You don’t want your phone to be like a PC. The last thing you want  
is to have loaded three apps on your phone and then you go to make a  
call and it doesn’t work anymore. These are more like iPods than they  
are like computers.”

“You don’t want your phone to be an open platform,”

“You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want  
to see their West Coast network go down because some application  
messed up.”

“These are devices that need to work, and you can’t do that if you  
load any software on them,”

“That doesn’t mean there’s not going to be software to buy that you  
can load on them coming from us. It doesn’t mean we have to write it  
all, but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment.”

I wonder if this will be a mistake Steve lives to regret like keeping  
the original Mac hardware closed and not licensing the Mac OS.

Cheers,
Ashley.

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Ashley Aitken
Perth, Western Australia
mrhatken at mac dot com
Skype Name: MrHatken (GMT + 8 Hours!)