No Third Party iPhone SDK

[Ashley Aitken]

On 12/01/2007, at 9:06 PM, Dave Schroeder wrote:

>
> On Jan 12, 2007, at 12:56 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Viewed through the lens of the last 22 years...
>
> Was that really a mistake?
>
> Could Mac OS have been the dominant OS in a sea of vastly divergent  
> hardware, incompatibilities, crashing, and all manner of other  
> problems? Sure it could have.

Yes, I agree.

> Is that what we wanted? (I know you could make all kinds of  
> arguments like "but Apple could have had tighter requirements and  
> certification for hardware blah blah blah". Sure, easy t say things  
> like that with 20/20 hindsight.)

Good question, hard to answer.

I think it is not stretching things to say that Apple would have done  
things differently (and Microsoft).

Obviously the world would be a different place, but I don't think  
anyone can really say where we'd be at currently.

> When Steve Jobs rolled out Alan Kay's quote about people who really  
> care about great software also need to make their own hardware, and  
> tie that software to it, he wasn't kidding.

I always shiver when I think of how well Jobs being ditched from the  
Apple board, Job leaving Apple to start NeXT, NeXT hardware sales  
failing so they had to go cross platform, Apple failing so they had  
to buy Next, and Jobs taking over Apple to merge MacOS and NeXT,  
worked out in the end.

I'd really like to suggest it was planned that way (but I would never  
do that).

Cheers,
Ashley.