Stefan of Ringnokia.com caught this one. Bit of an arse, eh?
Link: Apple’s Jobs: ‘You don’t want your phone to be like a PC’
‘These are devices that need to work, and you can’t do that if you load any software on them,†Jobs continued. ‘That doesn’t mean there’s not going to be software to buy that you can load on them coming from us. It doesn’t mean we have to write it all, but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment.â€Â
Gahhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Just when you thought it was safe to come out from behind the sofa of mobile industry despair….
I think Jobs’ comment is semi fair and semi annoying. Sure, you want to guarantee the experience, but at the same time, you want it to be extensible. I don’t want to have to wait 6 months and drop $100k to get my application certified for the iPhone. So we shall see, eh? Time to perhaps stop talking about the iPhone now, let it arrive on the scene and then peer at it strangely.
This will be a very concerning problem if Apple performs a ‘microsoft’ on its users.. the amount of software I need to install on a new WM device borders on astounding. Microsoft / OEM’s ship what I would condider a ‘bare-bones’ phone.
Now if Apple were to ship decent applications from the outset it a) May justify the relatively high cost of the iPhone and b) Reduce demand for 3rd party apps
slight aside..
when the iphone launches in the USA in June, does anybody know whether if I went and bought one that it would work with a UK SIM in the UK on a UK network? Or will we all have to wait in the UK til there is one officially brought out then?
steve
I wonder, I wonder…..