Developers: Come One Come All To The iPhone!
10.18.07 - 01:37pm
In an abrupt turnaround Steve Jobs has announced that he will be welcoming all third party applicants to the iPhone. Perhaps the change is partially in response to heated up competition, such as the new HTC Touch from Sprint - open to third party apps, and perhaps it is in part to the continued flack he has gotten from the application building community and iPhone users over the issue.
It was only a couple weeks ago, that a update to the iPhone, 1.1.1, not only bricked any unlocked phones but made any third party applications obsolete.
Some of those application’s such as one’s to make the iPhone’s e-mail work better, was much loved by the iPhone community, and they weren’t happy to have it taken away.
“Let me just say it: We want native third-party applications on the iPhone. We are excited about creating a vibrant third-party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users,” said Steve Jobs in a open letter he has posted on the Apple web site.
He says he wants to open the phone up to applications but not viruses, hence the reason the phone won’t be open to the applications till February. “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,” said Jobs.
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