iPhone Closed System

So this whole closed system thing must be or your own good according to Steve Jobs. I find that hard to beleive but in a quote -

"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."

It seems to imply that not only does Steve not want you to put non approved apps on the system but he is actually protecting Cingulars Network from you and your iPhone (once you get one). I guess those Windows Smartphone and PocketPC phone users along with the blackberry and Symbian 60 users are less likely to install apps that mess up the whole west coast.. I wonder how many messed up apps using EDGE speeds it would take to do what he talks about.... makes you think.

Well I for one find that installing my own apps is half the power of having a "smartphone". A phone that is stuck with what you get doesn't seem that smart to me.

Comments

[SigmaX]

Tell me about it! A UNIX-based embedded device that I can't play with? I won't be buying one -- it's useless to a techie, as far as I'm concerned. I know, I know, we're a minority, but still -- we spend our day jobs building the technology that *everyone else* gets to enjoy.

SigmaX