iLOL @ Steve Jobs

With all the hype about iPhone, I guess if your blog doesn’t have an entry about it, it is not really a blog, or an already dead blog.

Yes it’s smart, it’s pretty, it’s black, it’s apple, it’s cool, yada-yada. Most of us have been really upset over the so-claimed smarter than smarter phone and running a full-fledged operation system (OS X) (so-claimed by Jobs), yet would not be programmable by third parties. All softwares would have to be from Apple and Apple only.

And now I finally know the reason why,

“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.”

- Steve Jobs

Source: Ars Technica

That is so extermely genius of Apple to protect their partner telco’s network.

Now let me get back to programming my PDA so I could take down Singtel.

January 13th, 2007 / 4 Comments / Trackback

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Lucky I also blogged about iPhone earlier. Else my blog is not a blog. :p

Haha! Really don’t know which age is Cingular and Apple in? Other parts of the world already having 3G. How can a phone be revolutionary (maybe that’s why it is revolutionary) and ahead of its time if it does not even have 3G and support video conferencing?

Yeah, let me find my long lost PDA and start writting applications to bring down all the network.

It’ll be fun.

Cobalt Paladin on January 13th, 2007 at 8:25 pm

Wow you’re fast.

I believe until today 3G isn’t still as widespread in the States as it is in Asian and European countries.

Apple has usually been doing something quite ahead in their products, eg. by not including floppy drives in iMac when all PCs at that time have them, but this time it seems to me that Apple is building a phone to suit current Cingular’s technology rather than moving the industry ahead.

uzyn on January 13th, 2007 at 8:31 pm

Remember though, Apple has never been in the cell phone business before. And today’s wireless phone industry is wildly different than the digital music category Apple entered with the iPod in the late 1990s. The point: there are other player involved, most importantly the carriers. It’s a market Apple isn’t familiar, with a customer base that may not opt to pay $600 for what most people will think of as iPod phone. This is a big potential problem. Also, what’s up with the 5-month lead time? Aside from the Apple TV, when has Apple ever announced a product so long before its release?

More potential iPhone issues here: http://technologytailor.typepad.com

Alex on January 13th, 2007 at 11:42 pm

Really that is the biggest Bull Shitaki I have ever heard from Steve Jobs, and my opinion of him has lowered slightly.

What about the very sucessful Symbian technology that Nokia and Sony uses? This OS is one of the most stable and developer friendly software i have encounted for a smart phone.

This is more like a cover up of OSX having a lot of weakness as an online OS. Thats my guess.

DT on January 18th, 2007 at 7:08 am

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