Steve Jobs, in a message released this afternoon on the Apple website says the company will quit fighting 3rd party apps on the iPhone.
Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users.
The full story can be found here, but to summarize and cut through the hype, the caveat is that Apple is looking to control what applications are released in a method similar to Nokia’s where everything needs Steve’s blessing a valid signature to run. Wait a few months and we’ll see where this goes.
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