Steve serves some iPhone humble pie
Was there any doubt? Of course to the Leo Laportes of the world who couldn’t ever imagine that Apple could possibly know what they are doing, news like this might come as a shock, since he would have it known that Apple is the biggest bunch of retards for not allowing this sooner…
Steve says:
Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone…
Of course you do. You wouldn’t have put an operating system of such stature on any old cell phone…
we’re trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once—provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc.
And the fact that 1.0 firmware was hacked, slashed and otherwise rendered completely helpless to persevering programers who would have there way with it is certainly cause for alarm, in my books.
We think a few months of patience now will be rewarded by many years of great third party applications running on safe and reliable iPhones.
Who would of thought that was so much to ask… LEO!
P.S.: The SDK will also allow developers to create applications for iPod touch.
Signed, sealed, delivered! I hope Leo Laporte has enough humble pie to go around because he need to take quite a helping for himself.
To the Merlin Manns, John Grubers and Macalopes out there, thank you for being the voice of reason in all of this.
[tags]iPhone, 3rd party apps, Steve Jobs, Leo Laporte, SDK, developers[tags]