“Speaking at the CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment show in San Francisco, David Ulmer, senior director of entertainment products at Motorola, says he’s convinced Apple won’t open up the iPhone anytime soon:”
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4 responses to “Motorola Exec Claims Apple Won’t Open the iPhone”
I’m not really sure why this is surprisng. Why the hell would The Steve allow Napster, or any other third-party, music seller exist on his phone?
The cynical reason will always be that 01
The reality is that software develpopers from the windows world have form. Bad form at writing apps that allow the possibility to grant permissions to dodgy code that crashes the platform they were built on.
The other reason is that people don’t want their phones loaded down with excessive amounts of software that make the platform unstable. They want their phones to work