Trouble in iPhone paradise
I think it's officially safe to say that the honeymoon is over for the iPhone.
Just like the day you discover that your gorgeous new wife leaves used tea bags in the sink and that she never really liked baseball in the first place, iPhone owners are waking up to reality. Sometimes, there's a price to be paid for jumping into a love affair without taking a minute to think about it.
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September was the tipping point for many. It's been just over three months since Apple started selling iPhones, and although the company has sold over a million units, it also angered many owners with the steep iPhone price cut early in the month, and closed the quarter by turning iPhones with unauthorized software into either pretty paperweights or clean-swept devices.
We've spent plenty of time talking about the price cut, which very few people outside Apple could have foreseen coming so quickly. But no iPhone owner should have gone into a relationship with their precious device without the knowledge that unapproved applications and cellular networks were sore points.
Apple made it very clear from the start that AT&T was going to be the exclusive carrier for the iPhone, and two weeks before the iPhone went on sale, CEO Steve Jobs let everyone know that because of security and reliability concerns, native third-party applications weren't in the cards for iPhone 1.0.
"We have been trying to come up with a solution to expand the capabilities of the iPhone by letting developers write great apps for it, yet keep the iPhone reliable and secure," Jobs told developers at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June. That solution was Web-based applications, which is sort of like being told that you can't buy a DVD because HBO shows that movie every month or so, and it was met with tepid applause by Apple's developers.
So, the warning signs were there. Yet some people always think they can get the other person to change, or that they can get away with something verboten on the sly as long as nobody's getting hurt. Several efforts immediately sprang up to "jailbreak" the iPhone, opening it up to application developers and unlocking it from AT&T's network to run around the world.
Apple moved fairly quickly to scuttle those efforts. I don't have much sympathy for unlockers; the two companies probably have a signed agreement that nobody gets to use the iPhone anywhere else but on AT&T's network. Apple is under no obligation to sell you an unlocked iPhone simply because you don't like AT&T. That was part of the deal, and happens often, although momentum is building to make locked phones a relic of the past.
Third-party applications, however, are very different. This is the sort of behavior that doesn't really hurt anybody, right? It's just taking a good thing and making it way better, don't you think?
That's where the control issues surface. Apple thinks that the iPhone is a sacred device, and that attempts to mess with its carefully designed software will only lead to problems. I think the company could have a point here. The iPhone's OS X is essentially a new operating system; sure, it has a lot of Mac OS X at its core, but it's a very different implementation. Apple could be very rightly concerned about widespread application development that's not up to certain standards leading to stability or security problems.
But this is the problem with the iPhone (and now the iPod Touch): is it a computer or not? Those who want the freedom to put outside applications on their iPhones think it's a little computer that should be able to run the same kinds of applications that they can on their Macs, or at the very least applications created for other smart phones.
Apple isn't ready for that yet. It's not even willing to take an "out of sight, out of mind" approach, like TiVo did with those who added unauthorized software to their TiVos. Instead, it's taking a cue from Sony, which moved quickly to scuttle PSP hacks only to watch the behavior continue unabated.
I have to side with the developers on this one: a closed device is not going to revolutionize the smart phone market. There are too many open devices out there already and Apple simply doesn't have the manpower to create all the potentially useful applications that could drive iPhone sales. Also, these development efforts are going to happen anyway; if Apple decides it's going to remove third-party applications with each software update, people will quickly learn to simply stop applying the updates and deprive themselves of new features for the iPhone as well as the extremely important bug fixes and security updates that Apple needs to keep the iPhone stable.
Come on, folks, don't you remember why you got together in the first place? Apple, you need to keep a happy core of early adopters who will spread the Gospel According To Steve far and wide. And iPhone owners, surely you recall how you felt when you first held your iPhone in your hand. I still have yet to hear any iPhone-related complaints about the look-and-feel of the software and the hardware.
Healthy partnerships need to involve compromise. The iPhone early adopters have to let Apple keep their iPhones locked to AT&T. (For now, at least, there's no way that marriage is going the distance.). And Apple needs to give a little and let iPhone owners make mature decisions about what software they can run by taking a lighter hand to application development.
I know you two kids can work this out. Sure, Apple's known for having a bit of a control thing, and iPhone owners are perhaps a bit more needy than the average cell phone owner. But there's lots of good here.
And if not, I know a good divorce lawyer in Redwood City, Calif.
Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Internet search, including Google, Yahoo, online advertising, and portals, as well as the evolution of mobile computing. He has written about traditional PC companies, chip manufacturers, and mobile computers, spending the last three years covering Apple. E-mail Tom. 
you're kidding with this endless Apple/iPhone diatribe? cNet is a
'for-profit' entity that obviously does not abide by journalistic
standards, controls or sense of fair play. Along with other,
uninformed do-nothings who spend all day blogging, you enrich
yourselves on both the traffic which is driven to your site and
the e-mail addresses which are collected in the process of
inflaming Apple loyalists while pandering to a bunch of Apple
haters or those malcontents who obviously chose to disregard
the terms of use for the contract they willingly agreed to when
they activated their iPhones. It's a real shame that Apple has to
be dragged in the gutter because companies such as your own
can find a dollar in the muck. But I guess that is the price to pay
when you have developed a strong brand and worthless brands
such as cNet need to find a way stay afloat - taking shots a
something that is as real an advance as the iPhone because the
latest updates to Windows and Office dosen't drive traffic like
they used to. As a site that has lost all credibility, count me out
as a future reader and count me in as a very happy iPhone user.
I honestly wonder where these kinds of comments come from. We apparently agree on some issues discussed here, that Apple should hold users to the AT&T network, but we disagree that the same standard should apply to those who download third-party applications.
But instead of actually discussing the pros and cons of the approach, you go off on rant accusing us of being "a for-profit entity" that's designed to inflame Apple loyalists? Well, we are for profit, you got us there.
I'm not sure how you would like us to cover Apple. Should we dutifully agree with everything they say and do as not to inflame the Apple loyalists, or demonize their very existence as a threat to the future of the world? Just let me know.
Oh no, CNet is "for profit" so it must be eeevil and biased against Apple. You do realize that Apple is for profit too (is it ever). You certainly trust Apple pretty completely so why not CNet?
Remember it's just a computer company, use whatever computer you want. In but a few years, this Windows/Mac distinction may very well not matter one bit. Heck if these boards existed in the late 80's, they would be full of now pointless heated arguments about which is better: AmigaOS or Atari ST.
Live your life, use whatever computing platform you want, think whatever you want about it. Don't get all anal just because someone criticizes it.
sake. every time someone in the press DARES not to follow the
corporate line out of cupertino, dimwits like you rant & rave
about journalistic ethics and how cnet is this or that or
whatever. wipe the spittle from your chin before the folks in the
white jackets come and take you away. if you calmed down for
one second, you'd realize that the entire western world does not
live or die based upon the good fortunes of apple and steve
jobs. what -- you got 100,000 shares of apple or something?
that's the only explanation i can come up for your exceptionally
content-free post.
and please, i'm begging you: STOP WHINING.
enough.
fwiw, i thought krazit's blog was pretty good. entertaining as
well.
knows? Well Apple knows, maybe after Leopard, maybe at the
Apple Developer Conference next year.
From Thurrott:
Honestly, it's unclear to me why an off the cuff blog post needs to be
held to any journalistic or even grammatical standard. I think we're
at the point now where we should all just be adult enough to
understand what blogs are. And what they ain't. :) Sorry.
On 9/23/07, carl blaise <quantum642@yahoo.com> wrote:
> pt:
>
> since you write for a living you really ought to know and do better: in a
> recent post you wrote (re: mac style over functionality): "Such a port would
> be an ugly gaping hole in the side of these sculpted masterpieces, and
> there's already two USB ports, so if you need such a thing, you can just
> figure it out yourself."
>
> you should have written "there are" rather than "there's" because it's
> plural. you would never say "there is two usb ports". but i see this mistake
> all the time, even from people who write for a living; and i hear people
> incorrectly use "there's" on a seemingly daily basis.
>
> what's so bothersome is that this is a fundamental, higly basic grammatical
> error that you shouldn't be making. president bush is always quoted (and
> i've heard him do it) using "there is" when he should be using "there are."
> anyway, i'm not going to hold you to a higher standard; i'm just holding you
> to what i think you'd accept as your own standard.
>
> regards
Hiiilaroius! In your e-mail nitpicking something so stupid you made a serious mistake yourself! You failed to capitalize "I" as in first person singular pronoun.
Big, big mistake, I hardly see how Paul Thurrot was able to decipher what you were trying to say. Failure to capitalize pronouns is such a fundamental, highly basic, grammatical error!
Don't you know that if Apple says 3rd party apps are bad for you, that's it? So what if you paid $600 for the phone plus another couple thousand in service fees (of which Apple gets a nice cut) over the next couple of years?
Sorry, but I don't subscribe to the religion. If Apple comes out with a great product, I give them credit for it. Example: the Power Mac G5 DP on my desk at work. Excellent machine. I get a lot of work done on it. The iPhone? A device with great potential that is being hobbled by Apple management due to dumb ideas like no 3rd party apps, no removable memory, and no user-replaceable battery. The iPhone without the 3rd party apps is dull and boring. Which is why I'm not buying one.
BTW, you might add up what a similar phone (Blackberry?) and an iPod will cost you over two years.
There is really no "cult of Apple" Honest. We just buy products that we enjoy. Very different from Microsoft where we are forced to buy products that we really do not like. :-)
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match!
Look at them, they are relatively so few of them but they are quick to jump on anyone and everyone that dares to say something wrong about the overpriced and overhyped Apple technology.
Part of the Apple fanatism is too make a lot of noise so they can appear as thought there are a lot of them.
While it is their right to buy anything and everything from Apple and to follow the orders from Steve Jobs, pay whatever Steve Jobs feels like charging them, and live in the closed walled garden that is Apple and especially the Apple IPOds/ITunes Apple only world, I can't understand why Apple fanatics don't rebel and demand a little more respect, better tools and benefits to them, the customers, not to Apple's cash register.
It is as if to Apple fanatics, it is more important that Apple and its ruthless control freak Steve Jobs be more successful and make more moeny instead of the Apple customers getting better products, better servive and a lot more value for their spent dollars.
Steve Jobs is there to produce products that people will conform to. Remember the "Think Different" campaign a few years ago? Well, Steve is the one responsible for many non-technical breakthroughs, such as producing non-beige computers or the single-button mouse. He doesn't invent CPUs. Instead, he takes existing technology and re-packages it so that Joe Customer will enjoy the technology.
It is those people (probably most of them who represent the C-Net readership) who do not like a company or person to tell them HOW to use technology. They're the ones who are pissed off about the closed/locked down iPhone. But I have a gut feeling that they're the minority world-wide.
This is why I don't buy the bullet-points that the anti-Apple/Jobs camp dish out. They basically don't represent the majority of consumers. They're a lot more vocal about it, but being vocal IMHO won't change things in the short-term. Let them have their lawsuits, post on their blogs, and maybe even jump around flaming mad in a rubber room for a day.
But at the end, you'll still have the majority who basically conforms to anything Apple releases. They believe Apple knows how they want to utilize technology. So just let them be... If you think they're sheep, the so what! There are far more important problems to deal with.
So, really a non-issue right now. Thanks for the thought, though.
Europe are getting access to iPhones in November but there are
many more countries in Europe than the UK, France and
Germany.
And what about the rest of the world? I live in Canada and while
we have access to the same technology (indeed most of the
goods sold in the US are imported through a Canadian port),
there is no set schedule as to when iPhones will be made
available to us. Many of my colleagues have bought and
unlocked their iPhones to work in Canada mostly because they
want this revolutionary technology and aren't content to wait in
the dark indefinitely. While I have no hard numbers to prove
this, I suspect that the majority of people who are using
unlocked iPhones are doing it NOT to get away from AT&T but
because they don't live in the US and Apple isn't selling this
product worldwide.
If Apple were to provide a detailed roll out schedule for when
iPhones will be made available to Canada and other places in the
world, I suspect you would see a significantly reduced number
of unlockers. As well the dates should be specific and
aggressive, not "sometime in the future" which is what they have
currently said.
Aslam
P.S. Why does C|Net always report the news from only the
American perspective. You are a global site, stop being so
parochial.
iPhone available to as many people around the world as fast as
they can. They are making deals on the fly with Europe right now
and I'm sure they won't leave our brothers to the north out of
the loop too long. If you have to have it now then you will have
to take your chances doing it the back door way for now.
I don't think they have a detailed roll out schedule available for
Canada because there are no deals in place yet to have a roll out
schedule.
Ok let me be the first. I love lot of things about my iPhone. The industrial design is beautiful. It has the best text display any device in its size and class.
But for texting and email, the touch screen keyboard does not cut it, it is much harder to type quickly on the iPhone then on any other Smart Phone or PDA I have used.
dominant poking finger missing the keys. I had to adjust the
windage and aim a bit left. Other than that I can zip along okay.
The iPhone needs voice dialing. I used be able to flip open my cell
phone and dial home with two clicks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKfhxMpEGpM
to get good at. I can type a lot faster on the iPhone than I did on
my Treo. Sometimes if I am not paying attention I will miss a lot of
keys. Other times I can type real fast and accurately. If you have
ever seen Data type on Star Trek it is a lot like the iPhone. You have
to apply a certain amount of pressure to activate a key on the Treo.
With the iPhone you just have to touch the area of the key with as
little or as much pressure as you want. In theory you can type real
fast if you are accurate.
AT&T's contract with Apple is what enforces this, they say due to security.. but its not for *your* security, it's for theirs.
This reminds me of actions by AT&T in the early 80's where they wouldn't even let you plug in an answering machine.. they would fine you for "installing a foreign device" on their network.
New technology, same old stupid policies.
Same uninformed, irrational, stupid posts from clueless posters.
publicity that would make the second coming look like a non-
event. Apple's stock soaring. Profits, profits, profits! Polls
showing 87% of purchasers are in love with their iPhones.
Who's "destroying" the iPhone? I should be so lucky as to be
destroyed like the iPhone! A tiny minority of potential buyers
says it's holding off because of the lack of 3rd-party apps, or
some other thing. Fine. The rest of us have moved on.
The iPhone is what it is, and that's all that it is. (Sorry, Popeye.) It
is not what you want it to be, just because you want it to be that
way. If you want it to be something else you should start your
own company, design your own product, and put it out there for
the rest of us to see. But don't be too surprised when your
perfect product gets the same treatment from those that want
everything their own way.
Please, someone! Destroy me like the iPhone! Please! Pretty
please!
It's the product that they are destroying. Imagine what the iPhone could have been with a non-monopolistic company like T-Mobile.
http://www.openmoko.com/products-neo-base-00-stdkit.html
This looks much better. All the 3rd party apps I want, most likley for free too.
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qtopia_on_Neo_1973
In my view, Apple wins the debate and its consumers who
First versions are never all they can be, but it will only get better.
Compared to my T-Mobile acct and BB there is No comparison! The
web is faster and is actually useable now. Using the internet on the
BB was very painful. I live in a small town, and I see people
everyday with iPhones. They must be selling like crazy. And for
good reason.
to break it or have it's manufacture lock it. If you look at any
products warrranty it states any altering will void warranty and
support. You also have software licenses to deal with too with
the iPhone.
How can you have Fridaynight hackers alter a product then have
them sue the manufacture because it does not work?? Duh, what
did you think was going to happen?? Trouble with some people,
they just cannot accept what it is. They have to try and make it
do what they want it to do. My question is to the hacker's. If the
iPhone was not what you wanted. Then why in the heck did you
buy it??
When is Steve Jobs going to learn that he cannot act as an arrogant often dumb dictator? Who does he think he is?
Hasn't Steve Jobs and Apple learned that pushing overpriced closed systems does not work?
Hasn't the Macintosh failure to capture barely 3% of the global computer market in twentyfive years, TWENTYFIVE YEARS, not been a good enough indication to Apple that they need to open up and play along with everyone else?
This situation with the overpriced IPhones that still work and the new useless IBricks that don't work is totally unnecessary.
The computer industry and its customers are wasting too much time and money giving Apple and Steve Jobs so much undeserved attention. That needs to stop.
Apple needs to be less selfish, less greedy and be nice to its customers, not dictate to them what they can and what they cannot do. Enough already!
people bought products from Apple. So if you don't like the way
Steve Jobs runs the company, don't buy from him.
As for the "failure" of Apple as a company, may I refer you to
Apple's stock price? It rose to another record high today. Not bad
for such a dismal corporation.
The iPod is the most open player there is on the market today. It supports the most open formats and iTunes is the largest DRM free music store.
The Mac now has 6.6% of the Worldwide PC Market, (as of September 2007) so inch by inch it is eating Windows alive!
Apple builds the best products, nobody disputes that. It's just people that don't care for quality or are scared of Apple are angry that Apple is taking over much of the tech space.
Steve Jobs has never been "greedy" or "about money", he's just a firm believer in building the very best.
If you don't want that, fine... there is always some cheaper "Apple clones" like Windows, Zune, or Nokia products that might fit your education and budget better.
But for people that desire the best, you are way out of line. Until someone beats Apple at their own game, Apple will rule the tech world.
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time and money upgrading security every year. But you think it
would be better for Apple to open up and create anothe Windows
like clusterf*ck?
HP!!!!!!!!
They are worth almost as much as HP!!!!!
With 6-7 percent of the market. (You're 3 percent is old, Apple is
growing). But still, 6-7 percent - with 12 percent in laptops -0
is still pretty small, no?
And yet they make tons of money. Why? Because they don't think
like the rest of the industry. Like them or hate them, if you're a
stockholder you love them.
So who is successful? HP with all that massive product like to
support, and all the mediocre crap they sell, or Apple, which is
as valuable as HP, long ago bypassing Dell, with a much smaller
market share?
The Answer is Apple. And anyone who thinks Apple needs to be
more like HP, or Dell, or Gateway or Lenovo or Sony or Toshiba,
or whomever, is either not paying attention or is a fool.
for instance, you buy it because you like both hardware and
software. Even if you do not like Mac OS X you can install
Windows on your Mac. From the other hand if you want to buy a
PC You HAVE TO buy Windows.
Security is essential! High end products should provide high end
security and Apple still keeps this issue under control. There is
no need to say about other OS.
Prices are always in the centre of attention. Nobody wants to
pay big bucks, but everyone looks at the first price to pay. Let's
say you pay $300 for a system and then you have to by antivirus,
anti-spam, anti-something-else which add price to your
purchase. Buying an Apple product you pay for these things
ones and for a long time. It's just different approach. All those
companies selling PCs and PC accessories use different
marketing tactics to catch your attention and make you to buy
what is cheap. The common tactic is a discount. SAVE $300 says
poster and you buy just because you can save those $300
paying thousands at the same time.
Talking about years... hm-m-m... Let's have a look at what has
happened since Steve came back to Apple in 1997 and look at
the results for the past 10 years. iPod is the most successful
player. iMac is on demand now. What has happened before that?
Apple just gave a GREAT opportunity to Microsoft when was
firing Steve Jobs. It was the time when Microsoft started to
dictate "the right way" in the technology offering Windows '95
and so on. All of us just get used to it (been brainwashed) and
many of us look at other products and other companies with the
Microsoft's point of view in mind. That's the problem!
What I think really sucks about the iPhone is the $100 discount. Mr. Steve Jobs was pointing out to all the other monopoly corporate chiefs,"Watch this. I have been trying to tell you they are all dumb _sses by the masses. Look at these pathetic lil' people. They will gladdly eat any crack cheese device we feed them and pay any price. Watch me! I am jerking them around like a yoyo!
Steve Jobs is a traitor to the everyday man. He is now a tenured member of the billionaire club. He has forgot how hard the common man works to scrape to nickles together. $100 bucks to Mr. Jobs is like you or I leaving a couple pennies at the register.
Greed sucks and corrupts everyone eventually it seems. If it is money you are after you want Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs on the other hand is an orphan from a poor background, he's a hippy, had to drop out of college since he couldn't afford it and doesn't give a damn about "money".
He's just a quality freak and you can see it in his products. Only the best, or it won't survive.
That attracts a lot of smart people, the persons that want to own the best products with the best resell value. So the smart money is on Steve Jobs since he mixes "taste" with every high value.
I seriously doubt Steve even cares about money. Sure it helps make even better products for people, but he's never been "after money", that's just not his style.
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that.
Relic? Half baked cool gadgett thingy from Apple?
I have owned a lot of Cell Phones in my time and this one is BY
FAR the best one I have ever owned.
Outdated relic? You mean the touch screen that nobody has put
in a cell phone before? You mean the WiFi that nobody has put in
a cell phone before? You mean the full web browser that nobody
has put in a cell phone before? You mean the voice mail feature
that allows you to see and pick which voicemail you listen to in
any order you want, that nobody has put in a cell phone before?
You mean the software keyboard that nobody has used in a cell
phone before. You mean those OUTDATED relics?
"Sorry but, it just a half baked cool gadgett thingy from Apple."
What is half baked about it? <sounds of crickets chirping>
You didn't offer one piece of info and instead just spouted anti
Apple rhetoric. People like you sell more iPhones than any
salesman ever could dream of doing.
Keep posting your meaningful insightful wisdom please. I need a
good laugh every once in awhile.
at hardware and software. Maybe they know what they are
doing?
They signed an exclusive deal with AT&T and anybody that buys
an iPhone agrees to use AT&T. They aren't the only company to
sign an excusive agreement, but you would think so by reading
any article. If you don't want to agree to AT&T you can always
purchase another cell phone from another company and use a
different wireless provider. You will still have to sign an
agreement with them for at least a couple of years, but since it's
not Apple and AT&T I suppose it's ok then.
"The Edge isn't G3 and is so slow."
Apple CHOSE not to go the G3 route intentionally because it is a
power hog and if they did go the G3 route then we would be
reading about how crappy the iPhones battery is. Apple has
stated that as soon as they can figure out how to make batteries
last longer they would be adding G3. I have heard the Edge
called 2.5. I would like to know just how much faster G3 is
compaired to the Edge. The speed increase is very noticable
when I switch to WiFi mode on the iPhone. I don't know the stats,
but I would be willing to bet WiFi is WAY faster than G3. I seem
to only read about how much faster G3 is compaired to the Edge
even though nobody has stated how much faster. Nobody writes
in any articles that an iPhone on a WiFi network will smoke any
G3 phone for speed on the web, not to mention the iPhone is
surfing the the regular internet and not the stripped down
mobile version everybody else is using.
"There isn't enough hard drive space on the iTouch or iPhone."
The iPhone is sexy and slim. If they put in a nice big hard drive
instead of flash memory then the iPhone would be a big clunky
device that all these articles would be complaining about.
"Apple thinks that the iPhone is a sacred device, and that
attempts to mess with its carefully designed software will only
lead to problems. I think the company could have a point here."
I don't like the use of the word Sacred as if implying some
religious or cultish thing. It would have been enough to state
that Apple was concerned with third party apps leading to
problems. I owned a Treo before the iPhone and third party
software often led to crashes on the Treo. If they opened it up to
anybody that wanted to make apps then we would be reading
about how crappy the iPhone is because it crashes so much.
"If Apple decides it's going to remove third-party applications
with each software update, people will quickly learn to simply
stop applying the updates and deprive themselves of new
features for the iPhone as well as the extremely important bug
fixes and security updates that Apple needs to keep the iPhone
stable."
Really? Do you think they will blow off all of Apples new features,
bug fixes and security updates just to keep their weather widget
or gas mileage widget hack?
"I still have yet to hear any iPhone-related complaints about the
look-and-feel of the software and the hardware."
Thank you, you have proved my point. If they had allowed the
hacks, you would have had many people complaining that the
iPhone sucks because it crashes so much.
Apple knows what it is doing. Forget all the fanboy, worship,
cult, sacred names people come up with to decribe Apple users.
I am an Apple fan. I use their hardware and software because I
like it. It gets the job done. I believe Steve Jobs knows what he is
doing and he isn't going to let a few web site arm chair
quarterbacks deter him from what he believes is the right
direction. I believed in Apple enough to have bought their stock
at $22.50 a share and Steve hasn't let me down yet.
Keep up the good work Tom. I promise I won't flame you if you ever write about anything that I use (or worship). :)
You'd have to if you were a Micro-flack.
After all, Microsoft hasn't done anything innovative in years.
If you already play with all kind of Ms product and found no innovation, that's fine. I am a developer, and I know .NET Framework comes with a lot of new idea. Do you know what "LINQ" is?
The Apple IPhone would be more useful, more appealing and more worth its steep price if real native third-party applications could run.
Who does Apple and Steve Jobs think they are that they can come in and erase anyone's "unofficial" third-party programs installed on an IPhone?
If I had an unlocked IPhone and Steve Jobs came and turned it into an overpriced IPbrick, I would be mightly upset, no matter what the "I told you so" chatter was.
I admire you, Tom, for having the guts to criticize the "sacred" Apple and the "sacred" IPhone.
You and everyone else in the media should think and write more about what is good for the customers and not what is good for Apple and Steve Jobs' dictatorial grip. Someone should remind Steve Jobs that ruthless czars and dictators sooner or later loose, and that the wall came down in the 1990's. Open up, Apple!
The computer industry media should also stop spending so much time and effort writing about and paying attention to what Steve Jobs and Apple have to do or say. ENOUGH ALREADY! ENOUGH ABOUT APPLE! There is a lot of good stuff, useful and cool technology, affordable technology and great innovation coming out every day from every corner of the world. STOP WASTING SO MUCH TIME ON APPLE.
- SDK... with what?
- by kool_skatkat October 2, 2007 4:22 AM PDT
- If Apple was to release an SDK, different would it be from a full desktop SDK?
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Showing 1 of 2 pages (107 Comments)If a users overloads they phone, should Apple even look at it?
I think the limitation the SDK might have, it's yet time to look into it. Only that should be added is a way to server web-style apps locally. To bring the cloud in the phone and allow for persistence.
Anything else really needed?