> 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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