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Open iPhones: Security threat?
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 21:58:24 -0400
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/01/att-welcomes-programmers-for-all-ph ones-except-the-iphone/ October 1, 2007, 7:17 pm AT&T Welcomes Programmers for All Phones Except the iPhone By Saul <http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/author/shansell/> Hansell Tags: Apple <http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/apple> , AT <http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/at%26t> &T, iphone <http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/iphone> , Palm <http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/palm> I'm still trying to understand why Apple would go to such extremes to keep people from writing programs that run on the iPhone. I've been writing <http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/iphone/> about Apple's software update that seems to have deliberately disabled third-party applications that users have installed. In particular, Apple's explanations don't make sense to me. This is what Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, said to Newsweek <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16566968/site/newsweek/page/0/> in January: "You don't want your phone to be an open platform," meaning that anyone can write applications for it and potentially gum up the provider's network, says Jobs. "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." 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 don't seem to be crashing as a result. ...
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- Re: Open iPhones: Security threat? Dragos Ruiu (Oct 02)