Re: Open iPhones: Security threat?

[Dragos Ruiu <dr () kyx net>]

On Monday 01 October 2007 18:58, Richard M. Smith wrote:
> "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.

handango lists 8699 applications available for download for Symbian 3rd ed.

cheers,
--dr

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