Apple says yes to 3rd party iPhone, Touch applications

BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of PropagandaOKC Icrontian
edited October 2007 in Science & Tech
Steve Jobs, in a message released this afternoon on the Apple website says the company will quit fighting 3rd party apps on the iPhone.

<blockquote>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.</blockquote>

The full story can be found <a href=http://www.apple.com/hotnews/>here</a>, 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 <s>Steve's blessing</s> a valid signature to run. Wait a few months and we'll see where this goes.

Comments

  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited October 2007
    Via DaringFireball.net: Worst. source. ever.
  • sharkydartsharkydart KY Icrontian
    edited October 2007
    Lame! It makes me shake my head to think of the potential for development being thrown away... the potential for iPhone sales! That thing is cool enough, if it were possible to develop on it (..."applications" is SO misleading and got me to read this article, but what we are talking about is not development by any stretch of the imagination!), I can imagine so many more people buying one, it would be ridiculous. But no; Jobs has to be jerk.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2007
    "****! ****! They're hacking our iPhone! Let's placate the stupid ones with a token gesture!"
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