Jobs Knows Best?

Steve Jobs in an interview with the New York Times:

“We define everything that is on the phone,” Jobs told the New York Times. “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.” Jobs told Newsweek something similar. “You don’t want your phone to be an open platform,” he said. “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.”

Emphasis by me. While I agree that it’s great to maintain the stability of your phone, I don’t think it would hurt Apple to open up a bit and at the very least, let people put their own widgets on this thing.

January 11, 2007 | Filed Under Uncategorized