Mr. Jobs’ words about opening up Mobile OS X to 3rd-party developers:
You don’t want your phone to be an open platform, you need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.
First of all, assuming the techincal implications of this are true (because they simply aren’t), whose fucking bone-headed idea was it to tie the phone up specifically to Cingular in the first place? The only feature I can see that is directly tied to Cingular’s network would be the visual voice-mail feature – unless another bone-headed decision was made to even use Cingular’s network for connecting to the internet as a whole (which is highly unlikely).
I suggest Jobs take a look at what people actually write for the other OS platforms. What’s usually written are productivity tools (password storage, calculators and converters, etc), NOT as much for connectivity. And either way, those kinds of software don’t need to have access to Cingular’s network. If ever they needed to go “online” all they need is to access the internet via WiFi – which doesn’t and shouldn’t have to be tied to one network.
Also, there’s the glaring and obvious fact that nobody asked for Apple to tie these “features” to any one network. If the world’s collective memory serves itself right, didn’t everyone want the phone to be unlocked, and open to any carrier?
Please Mr. Jobs, isn’t it enough that you’re arrogantly telling us how we should use our phones – now you want to take us for idiots as well?
Seriously, someone should file an anti-trust case against these guys for monopoly. I’m baffled as to why Microsoft is the only one being scrutinized for such “practices” – when Apple seem to have been doing it since the release of the iPod.
Well.. because most people love Steve and hate Bill….. Hahahaha. Seriosuly, I also don’t buy the excuse that Cingular’s network might go down if 3rd party developers are allowed to write apps. Heck if one single app can bring down Cingular’s network, then they have a sucky network to begin with.
It’s been ages since people have written apps for smartphones. So I think the primary reason why Apple doesn’t want 3rd party devs right now, is that they want to keep the integrity of the iPhone. But hey, things change right? So we’ll see in the next few months.
Yeah, you’re exactly right about the Jobs vs. Gates thing.
Which is ironic because Jobs is notoriously known for being an asshole of a boss – and on the other side we have the Gates couple being one of the prominent philanthropists. Logically speaking, it doesn’t make sense that people even paint Bill as evil save for the fact of how he treats business as business and not culture.
They love Jobs because he gives the consumers the technological hard-ons they want… not because he’s a good person. They hate Gates vicariously because of Microsoft… not because he’s a bad person. Just goes to show how shallow people can be.
About locking down the system – I can certainly see the point in being “strict” about it. But OS X seems to be doing pretty well protecting it’s “kernel” regardless of how open a platform it is.
I have full confindence in Apple’s capability to create a slimmed down version of their OS with at least the same security, and stability as its more complex desktop grade counterpart.
Besides, their dedication to “innovation” goes against all this as well. What they’re claiming now is just like the obsolete claim purists had/have when they say photographers shouldn’t go digital (because it can’t match film). To a certain extent this still holds true – but that doesn’t mean digital will not match it and surpass it in the long run.
In the mobile market, not only is the technology already there, but has already been proven to work and work well – take Japan for instance.
I’m sure they CAN open it up and still maintain the OS integrity they want – they probably just don’t want to. So Apple’s excuse is simply that: an EXCUSE.