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Originally Posted by Gavin
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This is what he actually said:
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“We define everything that is on the phone,†he said. “You don’t want your phone to be like a PC. The last thing you want is to have loaded three apps on your phone and then you go to make a call and it doesn’t work anymore. These are more like iPods than they are like computers.â€ÂÂ
The iPhone, he insisted, would not look like the rest of the wireless industry.
“These are devices that need to work, and you can’t do that if you load any software on them,†he said. “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€ÂÂ
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/te...in&oref=slogin
I can see his point. While I would like to have the freedom to muck about with my iPhone (when I get one
) as I do with my Palm currently (I would hope to replace the Palm with this), I appreciate the need to keep the phone working. And I don't think there's any basis for saying that the only apps that will be available will be overpriced widgets for checking stock prices either.
Besides, if the thing has a fully-featured web browser, there are online services for almost everything these days. Google Docs & Spreadsheets springs to mind.