>     There were a lot of comments flying around Slashdot about how it 
> wouldn't run third-party applications. I think that was misquoted or 
> taken out of context. What Steve Jobs said was that (if you read the 
> article that the Slashdot comments are referring to), in essence, Apple 
> would allow outside developers to develop for the iPhone (or whatever it 
> will be called) but Apple would have to sign-off on the applications 
> after doing some extensive testing. In a way that's good. I have a 
> Windows Mobile device and some of the third-party applications I have 
> for it do make the applications and the phone more unstable. I think 
> Apple doesn't want to just have all of these applications out there that 
> affect the user experience thereby making Apple look bad. They would be 
> crazy to just close the phone off to all external applications.

So, basically jobs is wanting to see a return to the old ways of they 
get to see your code and tell you yay or nay and then, wow, that new 
program looks familiar...
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