Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 12th Jun 2007 01:16 UTC
When Steve Jobs mentioned a few weeks ago that there will be "some sort of app development" for the iPhone, everyone assumed he meant widgets. Widgets are less powerful than native applications, and depending on the underlying OS hooks offered, they can be even less powerful than J2ME apps. But when Jobs came out today to outright sell us Web 2.0 and said that "no SDK required", I felt cheated.
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2006-01-11
For many cell phone vendors, the customer is the carrier, not the end user. The carrier chooses what apps the phones run and how much the users pay for those apps. They usually make the phones available to end users in exchange for a contract to use their services, and then they lock the phones.
If Apple follows this model, they'll design the phone to maximize revenue for Cingular (AT&T now). The alternative is to make a developer-friendly platform and piss off the carrier. Yes, security is a concern, but it's important to check what they mean when they say "security" ... "user finds a way to send more text messages without being billed" might be the kind of "security violation" they want to stop.