Ya, whatever Mr Jobs. I'm not sure what to make of the iPhone. I'm not sure what it means. For one thing, it's really a whole new application of technology. It's taken things to a new level in a better way than others have done, so far. It's also a whole new level of cost. I think I paid $12 for the first telephone I ever bought. The service and hardware for the iPhone are an order of magnitude higher than anything that's gone before. And it selling! If anyone were to prove right about this sort of thing it would be Jobs. Yet we all know it is impossible to prevent people from using hardware, that they purchase and own, in the way they want to. So where's it heading? I'm not sure.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/01/att-welcomes-programmers-for-all-phones-except-the-iphone/
AT&T Welcomes Programmers for All Phones Except the iPhone
"You dont want your phone to be an open platform, meaning that anyone can write applications for it and potentially gum up the providers network, says Jobs. You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesnt want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.
"That sounds reasonable until you realize that there are many millions of phones that run operating systems from Palm, Microsoft and others for which third-party applications are created all the time, and networks dont seem to be crashing as a result."
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